The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

In 2025, the Instagram algorithm has become more advanced than ever, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to decide what content users see in their Feeds, Reels, Stories, Explore pages, ...

UNTIL THEY’RE HEALTHY ENOUGH FOR ADOPTION. THE MAN FOUND GUILTY IN THE DELPHI MURDER CASE WILL GET MORE TIME TO APPEAL HIS CONVICTION. A COURT GRANTED ADDITIONAL TIME IN THE APPEALS PROCESS FOR ...

medicalcoder is a lightweight, base-R package for working with ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes. It provides fast, dependency-free tools to look up, validate, and manipulate ICD codes, ...

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 is right around the corner, and you’ll get to experience a lot of new content, updated omnimovement, and a whole load of new maps. But, before its launch on November 14, ...

Borderlands 4 is out now! Yay, that’s exciting. However, on PC, it has some performance problems that might dampen your enjoyment. But hey, whatever, you’re here because you want to figure out how ...

You open YouTube Shorts while waiting for your coffee. A couple of videos, you think. Thirty minutes later, you're still scrolling. The brain is buzzing, time is gone. YouTube Shorts isn't just a ...

Anthropic launched learning modes in Claude chatbot and Claude Code. Instead of creating answers, they use the Socratic approach to guide you. You can select 'Learning' from the style dropdown to ...

GitHub Copilot Pro now supports GPT-5 in VS Code. A 30-day trial lets you test premium models for free. Add your OpenAI key to bypass Copilot restriction. First, open VS Code. Click the little Copilot ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a two-stage soft-decision decoding (SDD) algorithm for BCH codes. At the first stage, we search for test error patterns (TEPs ...

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 ...