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The impacts of social media algorithms are manifold: Algorithmically powered newsfeeds on social media threaten to destabilize countries and governments around the world, deeply impact mental health, ...

I will discuss the so-called entropic barriers effect which slows down the performance of classical algorithms running some hard constraint satisfaction problems. I will show how the effect of those ...

Blink and you'll miss it: A Purdue University student engineering team has built a robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in one-tenth of a second — faster than the average time it takes to blink an eye.

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