The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

"You need to configure the Vitis HLS and XRT environment before proceeding to the next step. For Zhang group students, we have the Vitis environment configured on the server, so you can directly ...

NASA's Artemis 3 mission, aiming for the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo era, currently lacks a definitive Human Landing System (HLS) architecture and faces an uncertain launch timeline, ...

SpaceX has shown off intriguing renders of the interior of the Human Landing Systems (HLS) variant of its enormous Starship spacecraft — and we can’t shake the feeling that it’s a surprisingly poor ...

Amid numerous questions about whether SpaceX can have the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship ready in time for Artemis 3, the company released a significant amount of information on its ...

SpaceX defends Starship HLS as the "central enabler" of the Artemis program. Credit: SpaceX After Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy criticized delays, SpaceX issued a lengthy progress report on ...

Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced the reopening of the Human Landing System (HLS) contract for the Artemis 3 lunar landing mission. This decision arises from concerns regarding SpaceX's ...

SpaceX won a NASA Human Landing System award in 2021 to develop a lunar lander version of Starship for the Artemis 3 mission. Credit: SpaceX Updated 6:10 p.m. Eastern with NASA statement. WASHINGTON — ...

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 ...