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 ...

During the summer of 2020, when protests convulsed cities around the world, one of the most striking scenes took place outside a library in a wealthy Maryland suburb. Eight days after George Floyd was ...

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 ...

The upheaval in Golden Valley is just one example of the way Floyd’s murder shook thousands of police agencies nationwide. Officer Cheeka Vang doesn’t know what to expect when he begins his shift each ...

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 ...

Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020. George Floyd's family reflected on his legacy and called again for police reform during a press conference on Sunday to mark the ...