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 ...

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.

A vast, star-forming cloud in the constellation Orion has been unveiled in stunning detail by the European Space Agency's Euclid Space Telescope, offering a rare look at the turbulent birthplace of ...

The data is starting to reveal how galaxies and their black holes evolve. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After only one year of ...

It's almost become expected that many space telescopes and probes can have "extended missions." Both Voyagers are still sending data back 40+ years after their five-year primary mission ended. But ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

A Euclid teen who shot at a group of youths in 2024, killing one and injuring four others, has been sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 20 years. Pickup truck crashes ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

Approaching the small, windowed trailer, propped up on a wooden deck with wheelchair ramps and trees overhanging a small playground in the back, people might wonder what it is. The trailer, located at ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

The consortium running the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms developed by UZH ...