Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy ...

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Armed with a burner phone and a fake name, I set out to learn how Instagram’s algorithm really works. This is what happened ...