An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

When I arrived in Minneapolis, the frost had just lifted, and gray clouds hung low over the horizon. I had come to make a pilgrimage to George Floyd Square, where the revolution of 2020 began. It has ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 FBI has fired 15 agents associated with a 2020 incident in which agents were photographed kneeling with demonstrators at the height of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, according ...

Kirk made the statement in reference to Floyd's alleged criminal history and the circumstances surrounding his death. Kirk's exact words were: "I am also going to offer some context and some nuance ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Floyd-Warshall performs badly with vertex counts that are a power of 2, as well as some fixed ratios of this. It's certainly a CPU cache effect, but I don't have sufficient knowledge to deal with this ...

I’m an attorney, a political commentator, and an immigrant who came to America as an international student in 2008, when I was just 14 years old. In Trump’s America, all of these basic facts about my ...

Five years ago, the fight for racial justice reached a fever pitch when George Floyd was killed by a White police officer, Derek Chauvin. The world watched in horror as Chauvin placed his knee on ...

Five years ago, on May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest. Although ample evidence showed that Chauvin and police misconduct ...

Five years ago today, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Video of the event sent shockwaves around the world and triggered an American reckoning with racial justice and police use of force ...