A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

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President Donald Trump referenced a racial slur during a meeting with top U.S. military leaders in Virginia on Tuesday, Sept. 30. During a 72-minute speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Trump said he ...

The "Sort an Array" problem contains biased test cases that cause mathematically correct and efficient QuickSort implementations to receive Time Limit Exceeded (TLE) errors, while the built-in ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

Effective AML compliance requires accurately screening for sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media. Two algorithms: Jaro-Winkler and Levenshtein, often come up in discussions ...

The hard-throwing reliever headlines the 10 players added to the Tampa Bay organization, with 11 sent elsewhere. Marc Topkin is a sports reporter covering the Tampa Bay Rays. Reach him at ...

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 ...

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 easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.