Robot skill library ASPIRE — released June 29 by NVIDIA and collaborators — gives robots persistent memory by storing every debugging fix as a named, reusable code pattern. It pushed bimanual handover ...

The offices of Google are pictured in London on February 28, 2026. JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images Google released agents-cli on April 21, 2026, and it has shipped 13 updates in the 71 days since — ...

Abstract: Microwave Imaging is a key technique for reconstructing the electrical properties of inaccessible media, relying on algorithms to solve the associated Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms make countless random decisions during selection, mutation, and crossover operations. These random decisions require a steady stream of random numbers. We analyze the ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

[JMLR (CCF-A)] PyPop7: A Pure-PYthon LibrarY for POPulation-based Black-Box Optimization (BBO), especially *Large-Scale* algorithm variants (from evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, ...

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 ...