The full 12-team playoff was revealed Sunday, with the top four seeds earning first-round byes, and eight teams scheduled to play in the first-round at campus sites. We wrap up the first round of the ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

These primality tests extend Steve Worley's 32 bit primality test. They improve on Jim Sinclair's test that uses 7 SPRP tests. 32 bit numbers are checked with a single SPRP test, two are used for 49 ...

For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

A cycle-accurate alternative to speculation — unifying scalar, vector and matrix compute In dynamic execution, processors speculate about future instructions, dispatch work out of order and roll back ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...