Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

A volunteer helps sort domestic waste at a community in Chaoyang district in Beijing in May 2021. LI XIN/XINHUA Despite standout success in a few major cities, China's national garbage-sorting ...

The technology provider has worked with two German companies to equip their light packaging sorting facility in Breman, Germany. The rebuilt sections of the plant feature what Stadler calls an ...

The world body warned it would run out of money by July and have to close its New York headquarters if countries, namely the United States, did not pay annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

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 ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

For scrap metal recyclers, having access to fast and reliable analytical technologies is critical. These tools enable accurate sorting of materials, ensuring consistent alloy composition and quality ...

Recycling tech provider Sutco has completed the commissioning and start-up of the first phase of an advanced plastics recycling plant in Norway. The facility serves as Norway’s national sorting hub ...