Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Optimal Blue CEO Joe Tyrrell has responded to a class action lawsuit alleging mortgage price-fixing, calling the claims baseless and frivolous. The company, along with 26 major lenders, is accused of ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

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 ...

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Optimal Blue and 26 U.S. mortgage lenders, alleging that Optimal Blue's analytics tools facilitated a pricing cartel. The suit claims this arrangement led ...

This AI-backed palletizer with articulated arm robot handles variable infeed of mixed case sizes, using artificial intelligence to build out the optimized pallet pattern. Hello, I'm Miguel Tavera with ...

Tropical Storm Humberto could merge with another developing storm, causing a weather event known as the Fujiwhara effect. The National Hurricane Center said late Thursday morning, Tropical Storm ...

Shares of Pattern Group are slated to make their trading debut Friday after the e-commerce services company's initial public offering was priced at the midpoint of expectations. Pattern late Thursday ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The following is a press release written by Desiree DeMolina and Zac Rogers for the City of Bloomington. The City of Bloomington will begin a roadway improvement project on Monday, August 4, along ...