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 ...
The solid-state battery race is heating up. Factorial Energy, a Massachusetts-based start-up, plans to go public in mid-2026. The listing will provide $100 million in capital to advance its battery ...
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...
Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.
You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...
Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...
How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...
Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Factorial Inc. (Factorial), an industry leader in solid-state battery technology, today announced the shipment of its first solid-state lithium-metal battery cells for drone ...
Semi-solid-state battery cells engineered by Factorial Energy complete successful validation test with automaker Stellantis. Factorial's FEST (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology) battery cells ...