If you cook even occasionally, you’ve likely run into recipes that casually switch between teaspoons and tablespoons, two spoons that look similar but behave very differently in practice. Mixing them ...

The federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program began 2026 on a positive note, with each of its investment portfolios posting gains in January. The international stocks of the Thrift ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

This project adapts the FunSearch algorithm (from GRAIL) to automatically discover heuristics for the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). Instead of training neural networks, we use Large Language ...

Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey slammed a military officer's post-divorce spending and a questionable retirement deal after the caller revealed he had accumulated $57,000 in debt. Post-Divorce ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., this week introduced new legislation aimed at making it easier for federal workers to take advantage of the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program to help ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech giant Oracle will spearhead U.S. oversight of the algorithm and security underlying TikTok's popular video platform under the terms of a deal laid out this week by President ...

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 ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...