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 a big win for women’s golf, the LPGA Tour will see substantially more linear television exposure during the upcoming season. On Tuesday, the LPGA Tour announced a partnership with commercial ...

Firefighters rescue two dogs and a cat from Lake Worth Beach kitchen blaze Firefighters rushed into a Lake Worth home Friday morning, rescuing two dogs and a cat from a kitchen fire as smoke and ...

The big picture: In 2019, Google's Sycamore chip achieved quantum supremacy by solving a random number problem that would have taken the fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. Although that ...

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 ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

A massive expansion in specialized healthcare is coming to the Treasure Coast. Riviera Beach’s MLK parade focuses on passing Dr. King’s legacy to the next generation The City of Riviera Beach is ...

A deal to prevent a US TikTok ban is now in place. The app’s algorithm will be copied, overseen by Oracle, and retrained using only American user data. This new, separate system addresses national ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday revealed further details of a deal reached between the U.S. and China over control of the popular social media platform TikTok, sharing that ...

On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...

Baltimore County police are investigating multiple commercial burglaries reported across the county over the weekend, including one on Sunday morning in Catonsv Maryland State Police seek public help ...

We’re more than halfway through 2025, and SEO has already changed names many times to take into account the new mission of optimizing for the rise of large language models (LLMs): We’ve seen GEO ...