The UK government said Tuesday that it'll stop grading visa applications with an algorithm critics have called racist. From Friday of this week, a temporary system will be put in place to grade ...

A new reinforcement-learning algorithm has learned to optimize the placement of components on a computer chip to make it more efficient and less power-hungry. 3D Tetris: Chip placement, also known ...

In 2023 and 2024, researchers Regev and Chevignard, Fouque and Schrottenloher developed improvements that reduced the required resources to execute this algorithm. In May 2025, a Google Quantum AI ...

The Most Likely Machine, created by design studio Artefact, aims to improve kids’ digital literacy. It’s a winner in the 2021 Innovation by Design Awards. It’s no secret that algorithms are ...