Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to enhance commerce on AI-powered ...

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

YouTube is a key tool in recruiting far-right activists to the largest British fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA), ...

When tools like ChatGPT first launched, they weren’t even connected to the internet. No real-time knowledge, no live queries, just pretrained data with a cutoff point. Two years later, Perplexity, a ...

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.

For years, Google’s predictable, and at times too easily gamed, ecosystem created an illusion that SEO success came from creating any and all content and checking boxes rather than understanding users ...

An international team led by the Clínic-IDIBAPS-UB along with the Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new method based on DNA methylation to decipher the origin and evolution of ...

Spotware, the developer of the cTrader multi-asset trading platform has launched an essential update with the introduction of cTrader Windows version 5.4, native Python, supporting algorithmic trading ...

From ancient bartering to lightning-fast market algorithms, this documentary traces the evolution of the systems powering the global economy. It begins with early face-to-face exchanges, where goods ...

This code was used for the AIMC'25 paper "Using Large Language Models as Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Algorithms for Music Generation". The code was tested on Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 and ...