A viral post by a MAANG engineer has reignited a growing debate in tech hiring. As AI tools become part of everyday coding, ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial ...

The United States is producing nurse practitioner graduates faster than the clinical training infrastructure can absorb them. NP programs have seen enrollment climb for three consecutive years, yet ...

Abstract: In this article, we present a distributed algorithm to solve a class of multirobot task assignment problems. We formulate task assignment as a mathematical optimization and solve for optimal ...

China’s CPC Central Committee and State Council issued comprehensive labour rules for the country’s 200+ million gig workers, the first time the party’s highest authority has formalised protections ...

Abstract: This paper studies the multi-robot task assignment problem in which a fleet of dispersed robots needs to efficiently transport a set of dynamically appearing packages from their initial ...

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...

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.

Bambu Lab just received a very interesting multimaterial patent. The patent in question, WO-2025218693-A1, “MATERIAL CHANGE HANDLING METHOD FOR 3D PRINTER, AND RELATED DEVICE”, is assigned to Shenzhen ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...