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How not to buy what you don’t need this year

Warren Buffett once said, “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” And the ...
Sixth Tone

China Targets the Algorithms That Made Loyal Shoppers Pay More

New rules ban data-driven price discrimination and tighten oversight of algorithmic pricing on e-commerce platforms.

AI’s Memorization Crisis

O n Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular ...

A new era of AI shopping: How brands are chosen by algorithms

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly present in the business world, with more shoppers using the tech to navigate ...

What’s ‘algorithmic coercion,’ and why is it making things we buy more expensive?

One company choosing to use a quick and reactive pricing algorithm could lead its competitors to increase prices, leading customers to face higher costs across the board, according to a study led by a ...
New York Post

Instacart caught using shady algorithm to charge different prices to individual customers — in the same stores, bombshell study reveals

Popular food delivery service Instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling them, ...
Game Rant

How to Get Blackpink Lisa Skins in Fortnite

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and ...
The New York Times

N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’

The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices. By Tim Balk As New Yorkers scrolled, surfed and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Algorithm–HW Co-Design Framework for Accelerating Attention in Large-Context Scenarios (Cornell)

A new technical paper titled “LongSight: Compute-Enabled Memory to Accelerate Large-Context LLMs via Sparse Attention” was published by researchers at Cornell University. “Large input context windows ...
Reuters

Google says it has developed landmark quantum computing algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...
City Limits

Governor Signs Bill Banning NY Landlords From Setting Rents via Algorithms

The legislation prohibits property owners or managers from using software that relies on private information to set rents, what lawmakers say amounts to price-fixing and artificially inflates the cost ...
hccommunityjournal

Bulky item collection schedule set

The City of Kerrville Public Works Department began its monthly curbside bulky item collection on Oct. 6, offering residents a chance to dispose of large household items. The service is available to ...