Greed isn’t always as obvious as someone hoarding stacks of gold like a modern-day dragon. Sometimes, it’s subtle, wrapped in polished manners, or cleverly disguised as ambition. The signs of greed ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Amazon delivered strong earnings and double-digit revenue growth, but shares dipped after-hours due to cautious guidance and slower AWS growth. AWS remains a core strength, achieving 17% YoY growth ...

If you invest a portion of your paycheck each week, you're dollar-cost averaging. Staying the course can help you bounce back from bear markets sooner. As tempting as it is to try to buy at the ideal ...

Abstract: An iterated greedy algorithm (IGA) is a simple and powerful heuristic algorithm. It is widely used to solve flow-shop scheduling problems (FSPs), an important branch of production scheduling ...

So far, not so good! No doubt, with the S&P 500 piercing correction territory (10% decline from the highs) on Thursday, traders aren’t shaking things off as well as Scott Bessent. The U.S. Treasury ...

Car dealerships exist to extract their bit of profit from you in a car-buying transaction by offering you sketchy loan terms and rushing their techs into doing expensive, shoddy repair work when you ...

I’m not going to beat around the bush: Greedy Girl is a horrible name for a vibrator. It might look cute on a diner menu next to the “Hungry Man Special,” but as far as sex toys go, it’s pretty cringy ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...