Larry Wilson: Dear Algorithm, We know you know what’s best

Dear Algo! That’s it. Parents, kids, just give in. Talk to the algorithm. She knows what’s best. Larry Wilson is on the ...
MacStories

The Sentence Returns with iOS 26.4, Sort of

Yesterday, Apple released developer beta 1 of iOS 26.4, which among other things adds a feature to the Music app that uses Apple Intelligence to generate a playlist from a short description of what ...
ESPN

Lakers look to model team after back-to-back champion Dodgers

LOS ANGELES -- The 17-time NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers are working with the back-to-back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers on their basketball affairs. Rob Pelinka, the Lakers' president ...
Hackaday

Different Algorithms Sort Christmas Lights

Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...
MIT Technology Review

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...
New Scientist

Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...
NextBigFuture

New Sorting Algorithm Breakthrough is Better than Dijkstra

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 ...