Zoh’s bringing inmates back home. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday revived the “Just Home” supportive housing project for ex-inmates in the Bronx that his predecessor Eric Adams tried to nix. The move ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

Rarely has a casting decision had such a magical effect: In “Hamnet,” 12-year-old Jacobi Jupe appears as Shakespeare’s son, speculated to be an inspiration for the character Hamlet, who is played in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

There’s a new moniker making the rounds on the surface of modern pop, and he’s accomplishing it with a drumstick in one hand, a mic in another, and a vision-overcoming strategy that won’t remain ...

Although mnemonic devices far predate the written word, both Cicero and Quintilian name Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BCE) as the first teacher of an art of memory. Simonides is perhaps best known for ...