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.

Taxpayers will need to calculate for themselves how much they can subtract from their 2025 taxable income using the new ...

Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm.

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, ...

A paper co-authored by Prof. Alex Lew has been selected as one of four "Outstanding Papers" at this year's Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025), held in Montreal in October.

Every advisor today is inundated with headlines telling them that artificial intelligence is about to change everything. (And by headlines, I mean the slightly panicked conversations you hear at every ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. However, just because it's good at some ...

Students in BC’s Appalachia Volunteers program participate in a community service project at St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children in Dorchester. Photos by Frank Curran. For decades, early March ...