If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

Linus Torvalds, who has so far expressed himself rather critically about the use of AI, has himself joined the Vibe Coders. However, he did not unleash artificial intelligence, in this case Google's ...

A Florida woman has emerged as the ultimate grand prize winner of a python-removal challenge, earning $10,000 after removing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition. On Aug. 13, the Florida ...

Computer pioneer Seymour Papert added support for turtle graphics to the Logo programming language in the late 1960s to support his version of the turtle robot, a simple robot controlled from the user ...

Sometimes, the stars align, and everything comes together in a way that’s almost too beautiful for words. You have to look up to the heavens and count your blessings, which is exactly what I did when ...

SXSW: Snake hunters from around the world descend upon the Everglades to cull the invasive Burmese python population in a contest that plays out like a Florida-fied "Cannonball Run." You can’t have a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Slithering into SXSW this afternoon at the Alamo Lamar, The Python Hunt is a documentary that might do for the Burmese Python what Jaws did 50 years ago for the Great White Shark. The ...

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The Gemini side panel in Google Sheets is being updated to let you more easily visualize and analyze data through insights and charts. It goes beyond summarizing spreadsheets or creating tables. An ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...