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The accusation is clear: El Toque is a media arm of the unconventional economic war against Cuba. It is financed by foreign ...

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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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

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The wait is finally over. A March Madness bracket will be revealed today. In just a few hours, one of the most anticipated events in men's college basketball will commence with Selection Sunday, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...