Eventually the schtick gets old. That’s the thing about “black hole” games—games like Valorant, Fortnite, Overwatch, and any other that’s designed to eat up as much of your free time as possible, ...

Recent victories by Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia and for seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission have led outlets like Politico to brand the outcomes as the ...

Whether it was a play, business or sports, there were plenty of starts and finishes around Oneonta during December 2005. As The Daily Star of Dec. 22 reported, “When opera-goers watch ‘Amahl and the ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

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 ...

“Plink!” (“Donk”? “Plonk”?) Spell it however you like: It’s the sound of sweet, sweet dopamine hitting your system—the sound effect that Microsoft’s Xbox gaming ecosystem has been using, for twenty ...

YouTube Shorts, the shortform platform from Google-owned video giant YouTube, has seen massive success since its launch in September 2020. Today, an estimated 1% of all waking human hours are spent ...

Introduction: Container relocation in port yards represents a canonical NP-hard problem, characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear constraints and stringent real-time decision-making requirements.