Silo Season 3 Just Fully Explained Two of the Show’s Biggest Mysteries (& Set Up a Shocking Twist)

Three seasons in, Silo is finally beginning to answer the questions we’ve been asking for years. Silo Season 3 has certainly ...
New Scientist

The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...
gijn.org

Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms

The impacts of social media algorithms are manifold: Algorithmically powered newsfeeds on social media threaten to destabilize countries and governments around the world, deeply impact mental health, ...

Innovative algorithm makes genomic surveillance faster and more affordable for global disease outbreaks

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

Phylogenomics reveals angel insects' ancestry, resolving century‑old 'Zoraptera problem'

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...
IEEE

Kuhn–Munkres Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the Set Cover Problem and Its Application to Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract: Operating mode scheduling is crucial for the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, the growing scale of networks has made such a scheduling problem more challenging, as ...
Scientific American

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...
Hacker

55 Blog Posts To Learn About Data Structures And Algorithms

Lets geek out. The HackerNoon library is now ranked by reading time created. Start learning by what others read most. Lets geek out. The HackerNoon library is now ranked by reading time created. Start ...
IEEE

NuSC: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Solving the Set Covering Problem

Abstract: The set covering problem (SCP) is a fundamental NP-hard problem in computer science and has a broad range of important real-world applications. In practice, SCP instances transformed from ...
The Straits Times

Medical cost inflation in Singapore set to hit record 16.9%; insurers’ body urges collective action

SINGAPORE – With medical cost inflation in Singapore projected to hit a record high of 16.9 per cent in 2026, the Life Insurance Association Singapore (LIA) called for collective action to tackle ...
The Straits Times

Woodlands to become first Singapore town to customise health activities for its residents

SINGAPORE – Woodlands is set to be the first town in Singapore to implement health initiatives specifically tailored to its residents, according to a tender by the Health Promotion Board (HPB) ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations

Two years after the debut of its Quantum Safe Programme (QSP), Microsoft is moving steadily through the process of incorporating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms into some of the ...