LinkedIn rewards different signals in 2026. Chris Donnelly brings data-backed insights from analyzing 300,000 posts on what ...

Background Annually, 4% of the global population undergoes non-cardiac surgery, with 30% of those patients having at least ...

Chairman Powell's term ends in May, and speculators currently see the most likely replacement is one of two Kevins. Odds place it at 77% that the new Fed Chair will be either Kevin Hassett or Kevin ...

A months-long joint investigation by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative has uncovered widespread price testing on Instacart's grocery delivery platform. The research shows that identical ...

Instacart is experimenting with pricing, charging some people shopping for groceries at the same time and same store location prices that can vary by as much as 23%, an investigation has found. On ...

Popular food delivery service Instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling them, ...

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.

1 Department of Information Technology and Computer Science, School of Computing and Mathematics, The Cooperative University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. 2 Department of Computing and Informatics, School ...

What’s happened? Instagram is testing a new feature that gives users more control over the type of content they see on the platform. Why is this important? Instagram’s algorithm plays a major role in ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Vice President JD Vance told press on Thursday that American investors will "control" TikTok's algorithm, adding investors will make decisions "based on what's good for their business as opposed to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...