Supercell thunderstorms are also single cell, but they last much longer — hours instead of minutes. The “super” in their name refers to that extended lifetime. An updraft is a column of air that ...

Genmoji (iOS 26 only) — Apple Intelligence generates a polished, Apple-style emoji from multiple inputs. Sticker stacking in iMessage — layer emojis manually as stickers for fun mashups, available on ...

Add merge/sort for ORDER BY cross-shard queries. This is an optimization on top of the current implementation. Right now, we are buffering all rows in memory. This is not great if result sets are ...

Abstract: This research work introduces a clustering-based in-place sorting algorithm, cluster sort. It is designed in such a way that it improves sorting efficiency by using data locality. It works ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

Merge sort is entirely different than the sorting algorithms we’ve seen so far, and it represents an important class of algorithms—divide-and-conquer algorithms. Divide-and-conquer algorithms work by ...

Abstract: Motivated by the DNA storage paradigm, we consider the torn-paper channel (TPC), which models data storage in long DNA molecules and breaks the input sequence into a random number of ...