This Guy Found a Faster Way to Multiply—Because the One You Know Is Ridiculously Slow

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it ...
Law

Antitrust Lawsuits Multiply—And There's an Algorithm at the Center of It All

Hard Rock Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Credit: Credit: Racheal Grazias/Shutterstock.com Atlantic City casino hotels just got hit with more guest-room price-fixing lawsuits after the first such suit ...
New Scientist

Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers

A pair of researchers have found a more efficient way to multiply grids of numbers, beating a record set just a week ago by the artificial intelligence firm DeepMind. The company revealed on 5 October ...