What are lock-free data structures? Lock-free data structures are data structures that are thread and interrupt safe for concurrent use without having to use mutual exclusion mechanisms. They are most ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

If data could pull up a chair in the C-suite, I can tell you that the conversation wouldn’t start with dashboards. It would start with a confession and a plea for help. "I’m bloated. I’m misunderstood ...

John Kelly is an investigative journalist and the vice president of Data Journalism for CBS News and Stations. In the nearly three weeks since President Trump deployed federal troops and law ...

Samsung C&T and Vietnam’s CMC Corp. are investing $1.3 billion to build a data center hub in Ho Chi Minh City to tap into the growing demand for cloud computing and AI in the country. The project will ...

U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients and will delay analysis of long-term trends. By Apoorva Mandavilli The ...

Atomfall has a few puzzles for you to solve, and one of the first that you will likely run into is at the entrance to Data Storeroom C, which is located in the Interchange’s Data Store Charlie. Here, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

Most people are familiar with data in the form of a spreadsheet, with labeled columns of different data types such as name, address, age, and so on. Databases work the same way, with each table laid ...