Before 2014, the BCS often left several deserving teams out of the national championship picture. Streeter Lecka / Getty Images In 2001, a 23-year-old Joey Harrington looked like the Pepe Silvia meme ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

It's a different year, with more teams in the College Football Playoffs, but Alabama is still a lightning rod for criticism. The Crimson Tide were left in the CFP field of 12 and, in fact, were not ...

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Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) ranks among the best financial stocks to buy according to billionaire Ken Fisher. On October 23, CFRA boosted its price target for Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) from $21 to $24 and ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

Barclays (NYSE:BCS) to acquire the U.S. personal loan originator Best Egg for $800 million, to expand its presence in the American consumer finance market. The acquisition, expected to close in Q2 ...

What the BCS top 25 would have looked like as we move into November, and how it compares with the AP college football rankings moving into Week 10. There were some minor differences between the BCS ...

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it on another quantum computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...