Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy money. So confirms a pioneering study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

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.

Donating to this campaign will put money where it needs to go. It also markets a fintech app to benefits recipients. Reading time 3 minutes The situation for recipients of supplementary nutrition aid ...

What’s happened? Instagram is testing a new feature that gives users more control over the type of content they see on the platform. Why is this important? Instagram’s algorithm plays a major role in ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

TIFF: As a struggling lounge singer with plenty of style, Vaughn is at his charismatic best, but the rest of Pizzolatto's feature directorial debut doesn't carry that same sort of pop. Lou “Easy” ...

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the easiest Python packager yet. Every developer knows how hard it is to ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...