Chinese regulators have issued new rules to curb e-commerce platforms’ use of consumer data to charge different prices for the same goods or services, targeting a long-criticized practice in which ...

If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KGUN) — Senator Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) introduced landmark legislation Tuesday aimed squarely at what he calls “surveillance pricing,” a practice in which companies use consumers’ ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

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.

As someone who loves easy breakfast recipes, I always thought a French omelette sounded too complex. Then, I tried making one myself — and the technique was much easier than I thought it would be. The ...

Mr. Conte is the co-founder and chief executive of Patreon. The World Wide Web was introduced some three decades ago. Describing in 2019 the hopes that had been projected onto the internet at its ...

You just can’t trust what you hear. That’s one of the many emerging terrors of our brave new funhouse-mirror dystopia of e-scams, cat-phishing, and democracy-destroying propaganda. In the good old ...

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Loneliness has become a defining challenge of our time. One in three adult Americans says they have experienced loneliness at least once a week over the past year. With the evolution of online ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...