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.

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 ...

After a wild, raucous and captivating Ryder Cup at Bethpage, PGA Tour stroke play returns this week with the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson. This event has been hosted at ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say. By ...

Each week on single-game slates, typically on Thursday, Sunday, and Monday nights, DraftKings offers showdown-style DFS games, which require fantasy managers to develop a six-roster slot lineup with a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kian Bakhtiari writes about Gen-Z marketing and social impact. The transition from broadcast media, intended to reach the masses, ...

After enduring too many close calls that drove his narrative for far too long on the PGA TOUR, Tommy Fleetwood saved his best for the last tournament of the 2025 FedExCup season and prevailed at the ...

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...