Imagine that you have detailed data from every college football game from the past four years, and you want to predict which teams will win through the rest of this season. How would you write a ...

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), in association with IIIT-Hyderabad, has initiated a mass-scale competition to prove fingerprint-based authentication technologies under biometric ...

Samsung Electronics announced on the 11th that it is recruiting participants for the 11th Samsung Electronics Collegiate Programming Challenge (SCPC). Since 2015, the Samsung Electronics Collegiate ...

As algorithms become more widespread within government institutions, there are two basic challenges. One is to design better ...

What is the Q-Day prize? The Q-Day Prize is a challenge to make the Bitcoin network quantum resistant. On April 16, 2025, quantum computing-focused company Project 11 announced the “Q-Day Prize,” a ...

A view of the building that houses the European Center for Algorithmic Transparency in Seville, Spain. (Photo courtesy of the Joint Research Centre) In the United States, there’s still no broad-based ...

The U.K. government is suspending the use of an algorithm used to stream visa applications after concerns were raised the technology bakes in unconscious bias and racism. The tool had been the target ...