Doug Ford has ordered government employees back to the office five days a week, starting January 5. As leader of more than 16,500 workers—IT experts, policy analysts, even veterinarians—how do you ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

Winners & losers: As Black Friday deals flashed across screens in New York this year, some shoppers saw something new beneath the price tag: a short, blunt line of text. "This price was set by an ...

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves ...

As hospitals across Michigan grapple with nursing issues, including high turnover driven by burnout, some are leaning on technology to give staff breaks from nonmedical work and physical tasks. Two ...

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 ...

Michael Frank has been writing and editing car and motorcycle coverage for the past two decades. His outlets have included Forbes, Coolhunting, The Wall Street Journal, Car & Driver, Road & Track, The ...

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 ...

Henry Ford Health issued a cease-and-desist letter to a Texas-based anti-vaccine nonprofit organization over claims it is spreading "false, misleading, and defamatory statements." The Detroit-based ...

Drew Holcomb understands what it means to make memories before it’s too late. His folk song “Memory Bank” was inspired by his sick brother and a father who worried about how much time they had left ...