Freedom of the press is under attack in the United States. Journalists are being assaulted, arrested, and targeted by FBI raids. Media moguls are being silenced or sued by the president. Satirists ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over Nikita Khrushchev’s grave at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery stands a memorial made of two interlocking ...

Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Fitzpatrick, a preeminent historian of the Soviet Union, offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy ...

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared the Trump administration to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s secret police following his indictment on Thursday. “I have become the latest target ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

An explosion of enthusiastic applause for Joseph Stalin followed a Communist Party conference in 1937. The ovation went on for three minutes, four, five… Palms were getting sore, arms were aching, and ...