The core idea hasn’t changed, as shuffle still randomizes your playlist. What’s new is the weighting. Spotify generates multiple shuffle orders behind the scenes before picking the one it thinks ...

Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

This article was originally published on Aug. 19, 2022. Meta, formerly known as Facebook, in June told its employees that it planned to not only reduce its hiring target, but it was going to "turn up ...

Facebook is the latest large tech company to begin mass layoffs, choosing 60 contractors reportedly at random using an algorithm. The unlucky contractors were employed by Meta via its Austin office of ...

Deployment of more and more applications on the cloud and use of the Internet demand careful attention to cyber security threats. Attacks against web applications are the most frequent challenge. To ...

Paper Open access published in Remote Sensing on February 12, 2018. Authors: Ana I. de Castro, Jorge Torres-Sánchez, José M. Peña, Francisco M. Jiménez-Brenes, Ovidiu Csillik and Francisca ...

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious and common complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Most risk assessment tools for AKI have been developed in the intensive care unit or in elderly ...

Aaron Hillegass first fell in love with stock picking in 1982, at the age of 13 when he bought shares in his favorite video game maker Coleco. He profited when the stock surged $58 in 10 months on the ...