Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
IEEE

Efficient Approximation Algorithms for Several Positive Influence Dominating Set Problems in Social Networks

Abstract: Identifying positive influence dominating set (PIDS) with the smallest cardinality can produce positive effect with the minimal cost on a social network. The purpose of this article is to ...
Men's Journal

TikTok Issues Statement, Confirms Major Algorithm Problems After U.S. Sale

TikTok explains issues with its algorithm. TikTok users in the U.S. reported feed and content issues over the weekend. Issues followed the creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity, as ...
City Journal

How the Media Shape Our Thinking

The purpose of the media is to teach the public how to think. This claim might offend the sensibilities of those who believe that America is a nation of independent minds. But no mind is independent, ...
Law

New York Restricts the Use of Algorithms in Setting Rents

In light of recent changes in the law and closely monitor developments in this area, New York landlords and software companies should review the design and deployment of any algorithms used in ...
The Providence Journal

Algorithms might be setting rent prices in Providence. Now, the City Council wants to ban them.

Algorithms like RealPage encourage landlords to raise rents and not negotiate Providence will vote on the final passage of the ordinance on May 15 The Department of Justice is suing one software ...
IEEE

An Inner Approximation Algorithm for Dynamic Optimization With Strict Satisfaction of Path Constraints

Abstract: An inner approximation algorithm is proposed for path-constrained dynamic optimization (PCDO) by iteratively solving restrictions of PCDO (RPCDO). First, an upper bound function of the path ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Begins Rolling Out March Core Algorithm Update

Google has officially begun rolling out its March 2025 core algorithm update, according to an announcement posted to the Google Search Status Dashboard today. The update commenced at 9:23 AM PDT and ...
ascopubs.org

Evaluation of a variant origin prediction (VOP) algorithm to distinguish clonal hematopoiesis (CH) variants from tumor-derived variants and to predict metastatic castrate ...

Somatic genomic landscape of prostate adenocarcinoma at a comprehensive cancer center in New Mexico: A retrospective study (2015-2022). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO ...
Wall Street Journal

X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content—Whether They Want It or Not

New X users with interests in topics such as crafts, sports and cooking are being blanketed with political content and fed a steady diet of posts that lean toward Donald Trump and that sow doubt about ...
Wall Street Journal

TikTok’s Harmful Algorithm Will See You Now

Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss TikTok. Next we’ll ask, “The WNBA has just concluded its 28th season, yet it still hasn’t achieved profitability. What strategies could the league ...