TL;DR: Although often labeled a "dark web" associated with criminal activity and illicit marketplaces, Tor is an invaluable tool for protecting online privacy. Developers are now working to make the ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

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.

Real estate software company RealPage has agreed to stop sharing nonpublic information between landlords as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice Landlords could no longer rely on ...

The Justice Department has settled its case against real estate tech firm RealPage, which faced bombshell allegations of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to jack up ...

A new NURBS-based algorithm is revolutionizing gridshell design by enabling faster, smoother, and more flexible shape-finding. What once required 90 hours of GPU time now takes just 90 minutes on a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon launching a new federal effort to supercharge American artificial intelligence research, development and scientific applications.

Professional women's basketball is at a turning point. The WNBA has been exploding in popularity, but a potentially contentious renegotiation of the league's CBA could have us heading for a holdout.

If you haven’t gotten a Real ID, it may soon cost you even more to fly domestically. The Transportation Security Administration announced Dec. 1 that U.S. air travelers who do not have a Real ID or ...

President Donald J. Trump’s new “Genesis Mission” unveiled yesterday, November 24, 2025, is billed as a generational leap in how the United States does science akin to the Manhattan Project that ...

Section 1. Purpose. From the founding of our Republic, scientific discovery and technological innovation have driven American progress and prosperity. Today, America is in a race for global technology ...