If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Holley Calmes is a freelance writer and public relations consultant specializing in the ...

From artist residencies to institutional partnerships, Oram Hotels is testing a new model where culture drives place-making. Michal Rzepecki This Q&A is part of Observer’s Expert Insights series, ...

The way people discover content, like music and art, is changing fast. AI-powered recommendation algorithms are creating fragmented social media feeds, carving pop culture into tiny, personalized ...

1 The Public Art Commission’s mission emphasizes enhancing the visual environment and strengthening Fort Wayne’s neighborhoods. And there have been some amazing projects created around the city. But ...

Ever witnessed code meet creativity? It has come true at the NDTV World Summit 2025 as Dr Merritt Moore blends quantum physics with ballet. Dr Moore is a scientist who splits her time between physics ...

Footage of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warning social media users about what they become while scrolling resurfaced this week. His speech took place at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024, where he ...

OpenAI and Google DeepMind demonstrated that their foundation models could outperform human coders — and win — showing that large language models (LLMs) can solve complex, previously unsolved ...

Art, however, counters this by insisting on presence. Rather than chase ephemeral shocks, art fosters the subject’s co-participation in an event that yields intangible synergy. By refusing to reduce ...

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.