Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

Just as calculators once were banned from classrooms, and later embraced, AI technology is finding greater acceptance among ...

Early last week, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the bureau is investigating the use of the encrypted Signal messaging platform by "ICE Watch" activists to track and block federal immigration ...

After several years of increased antitrust scrutiny involving pricing algorithms (and hundreds of presentations at antitrust conferences around the globe), the people who matter are finally starting ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Social media platforms often guess what you want to see but you can change your algorithm with a few taps on your screen. Let’s start with Instagram. Every time ...

GEAUGA COUNTY, Ohio — When Miles Jones saw his best friend standing in his kitchen doorway, the 9-year-old burst into tears. It had been more than two months since Rory Prodan moved to Texas. Miles ...

Musk announced on X that the new algorithm, including all code for recommending organic and advertising posts, will become open source in seven days. This initiative aims to enhance transparency and ...

With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly, exactly the way you want it.’ With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly ...

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.

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RALEIGH, NC — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a hate-crimes conviction, finding no error in the trial court’s exclusion of mental-health evidence and ...