In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit accusing several major health insurance companies of conspiring to ...

Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...

The YouTube algorithm recently spat out a video of Kaden Groves almost crashing on stage one of last year’s Tour de France. I saw it at the time, but my mind immediately got swamped with the rest of ...

The EufyMake E1 UV printer broke Kickstarter records, but supply chain, ink, and production problems still had to be solved.

Columnist Barth Keck says the irony, as they say, is rich in relation to a new book, “The Future of Truth,” that promises “a truth treasure hunt,” according to distributor Simon & Schuster. Come to ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

The X algorithm’s promotion of conservative content may shift the political opinions of those who switch to its “For You” tab after previously using a purely chronological feed, a study published ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...