Dating someone new? Hiring a nanny? Generally feeling cautious around unfamiliar people? If you are curious about a person’s history with the law, there are ways to look it up. For most, the Travis ...

The first hotel run by robots will open its doors to the public next year. It comes as no surprise that it's happening in China – on the artificial island built for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, the ...

Abstract: In binary image processing, standard Connected Component Labeling (CCL) methods introduce significant computational overhead by indiscriminately processing internal, boundary-isolated ...

Not sure what to choose in Theatrically Yours case in Dispatch? Here’s the correct answer for “Which movie theater should we search first”. But don’t stress too much if you pick the wrong one. There’s ...

Abstract: Pathfinding on grid maps is a cornerstone problem in robotics, autonomous navigation, and game development. Classical algorithms such as A*, Dijkstra’s, and Breadth-First Search (BFS) are ...

We study the forces behind Google’s large web-search market share. We develop a demand model with switching costs, quality beliefs, and inattention, and estimate it using a field experiment. We find ...