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.

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The NBA is, again, switching its format for the All-Star Game. The league announced Tuesday night a new format for the 2026 edition of the event this season at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California ...

The Nitto ATP Finals represent a "real big and important week" for Carlos Alcaraz with both a first year-end title and a second year-end No. 1 finish on the line. He took the first step towards ...

The opening round-robin matches of the 2025 WTA Tour Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ended with a win for Jessica Pegula over her American tennis compatriot Coco Gauff. Pegula recovered from missing a ...

Building owners and property managers will no longer be able to use algorithm-based software to artificially inflate New Yorkers’ rents as a result of a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on ...

Abstract: The central processing unit (CPU) is one of the most important resources of any computer system. Effective scheduling of CPUs across multiple processes is the primary function of any typical ...

Two former Google DeepMind researchers who worked on the company’s Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein structure prediction AI as well as its AlphaEvolve code generation system have launched a new ...

Implementations of three post-quantum encryption algorithms standardized by NIST on a hardware security module from Entrust have been successfully validated, giving enterprises assurance that they can ...