Algorithmic trading is also referred as black-box trading, automated trading, or algo-trading. It is a method that uses a computer program that follows a defined set of instructions or an algorithm to ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

When a natural disaster strikes, first responder managers face a flood of data — from drones, sensors, cameras, satellites, police, firefighters, and citizens — that must be sorted, secured, and ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

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 ...

The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said. By Hannah Ziegler A former software developer ...

A group of researchers have developed an algorithm designed to prevent threat actors from disrupting quantum communication channels across an entire network. Researchers from Italy's Politecnico di ...