Silo Recap: The 5 Biggest Things You Need to Remember Before Season 3

This is all the more important given Silo Season 3 is about to get a little “timey-wimey” (as another iconic sci-fi TV series once put it). We’re finally about to learn secrets of the “Before Times,” ...

You and your friend may be paying different prices for the same thing. Here's how companies make that happen

CreditNinja reports that companies use surveillance pricing to charge different prices for the same products based on personal data, including behavior and location.
Psychology TodayOpinion

What the "Boy Crisis" Narrative Gets Wrong

The "boy crisis" frame oversimplifies youth struggles into a single gender narrative. By separating school, mental health, ...

7 Details You Can’t Afford to Miss Before Silo Season 3

Before Silo Season 3 premieres, remember Juliette’s return, Solo’s secret, Bernard’s collapse, Safeguard Procedure, and ...
CNET

No, My Phone Will Never Replace My Camera. Here's Why

When he's not testing the latest phones or phone cameras, Andrew can normally be found with his own camera in hand or behind ...

I replaced Google Search with DuckDuckGo and Perplexity - my results were noticeably better

With Google now a cesspool of AI-generated answers, here's how to work smarter: DuckDuckGo and Perplexity are the best ...
IEEE

Algorithm Analysis of Electron Motion in Nonlaminar Cylindrical Beams

Abstract: At terahertz (THz) band, the beam tunnel size becomes very small and requires an in-depth analysis of electron beam focusing behavior for a THz traveling wave tube (TWT). A nonlaminar beam ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
Forbes

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...
Scientific American

The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number

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 ...
Kaleido Scope

Understanding social media algorithms: 101 for parents

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...
Wired

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...