Before addressing algorithmic pricing through legislation, we need to clarify exactly which features of it we dislike, argues Noah Giansiracusa.

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This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...

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After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

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A nostalgic hit built out of vintage pop-culture references captured the “If you liked that, you’ll like this” spirit of Netflix. In the summer of 2016, streaming TV was still figuring itself out.

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

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 ...