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Google Australia’s managing director, Mel Silva, says that the search company is concerned by a preliminary Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recommendation to create what she ...

His algorithm performs these computations so fast that it can deliver the solution at the very moment a computer reads the data that describes the network. Computations as fast as a network is big ...

MIT’s Peter Shor explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption. Internet security relies on the fact that our computers can’t break ...

UnitedHealth executives pressured clinical staff to follow an algorithm to cut off patients’ rehab care, leading to coverage decisions that may violate Medicare regulations.