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, ...

Tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup went on presale on Wednesday morning, with the U.S. set to host the global soccer tournament for the first time since 1994. While fans may think they should scoop ...

Each year, zettabytes of data are produced globally, which is comparable to the number of stars in the observable universe. This number is increasing at a rapid pace, and in 2025, global yearly data ...

You’ve probably heard the one about the product that blows up in its creators’ faces when they’re trying to demonstrate how great it is. Here’s a ripped-from-the-headlines yarn about what happened ...

If you’re experiencing intermittent connectivity issues with classic Outlook on your Windows 11/10 PC, we will show you how to fix them using the Outlook Connectivity Troubleshooter. The Outlook ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...

When employees at Meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be ...

D-Wave is about to make waves. The quantum computing firm announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it was able to “successfully simulate the properties of magnetic materials” using its ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

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