By Monday, The Verge confirmed skeptics' suspicions: DoorDash Deep Throat was in fact a fraudster. In an attempt to pull a ...

Online Set Cover and Load Balancing are central problems in online optimization, and there is a long line of work on developing algorithms for these problems with convex objectives. Although we know ...

In the summer, Ruben Amorim sat down with his staff, including his principal assistant and key lieutenant Carlos Fernandes, and together they spelt out the importance of Manchester United getting ...

Winners & losers: As Black Friday deals flashed across screens in New York this year, some shoppers saw something new beneath the price tag: a short, blunt line of text. "This price was set by an ...

The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices. By Tim Balk As New Yorkers scrolled, surfed and ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

The “rise of the creator economy has blurred the line between the personal and the performative,” says Taylor Crumpton. For “many creators, the more intimate the moment, the more lucrative the post.

A decade ago, that phrase might have been a joke about influencers and their avocado toast. Now it’s a shorthand for how every corner of life—dinners, cleaning, milestones, even grief—can be packaged ...

New Yorkers got a little more visibility this week into when apps like Uber and DoorDash use algorithms to set prices. The state's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday. Under the ...