The Grinch walked into the memory care unit at Wildcat Senior Living with a reputation for stealing Christmas. He left with hugs, smiles and a stack of photo requests instead. The surprise visit ...

The company's pricing strategy is grabbing headlines at a time affordability has become a major issue for U.S. consumers. Instacart customers are unknowingly participating in widespread algorithmic ...

Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Aaron Judge and Shaquille O’Neal will all be on stage, with former England captain Rio Ferdinand set to conduct the draw. FIFA Legend and former England captain Rio Ferdinand ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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.

It was supposed to be a blueprint for how humanity would eventually live, a linear city stretching 170km through the desert, harnessing the latest technological and architectural knowledge to make the ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following a pair of thrillers on Thursday and Friday, the Week 1 NFL schedule is set to continue on Sunday The opening weekend features heavyweight matchups like the Lions vs. Packers (-1.5), Jets vs.

Quantum researchers have created a new algorithm that can reduce noise in qubits while they are working, and it does this in real time. The method works for many different types of qubits, even when ...