This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

A divided Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on April 29, and Jerome Powell delivered something of a farewell address, speaking about the central bank’s independence and his ...

From the moment I was handed a phone, I was hooked. If I wanted to know what my peers were up to, it was now just a click away. I spent my days scrolling, constantly seeking whatever bits of ...

Fixed Window rate limiting algorithm enforces a limit on the number of events allowed within a time window. "Maximum 5 password attempts in 10 minutes" is a classic example. The common misconception ...

A new analysis finds that a 10% credit card interest rate cap would shrink access to credit, affecting well over 100 million American cardholders in the process. Some Republican and Democratic ...

If you listen to the brightest minds in tech right now, you might think human disease is just a software bug waiting for a patch. I’ve spent my career straddling the mathematical elegance of ...

Claude Code users have been flooding GitHub and Reddit over the last few days with complaints that their usage limits are being exhausted at a suspiciously fast rate, with many reporting that sessions ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

The performance of quantum computers could cap out after around 1,000 qubits, according to a new analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Through new calculations, ...

At the Utah Capitol last month, a mother told lawmakers her children struggled to stay focused on homework because their school-issued laptops supplied an endless stream of notifications from online ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Congress is confronting a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — without a formal declaration or an ...