Winners & losers: As Black Friday deals flashed across screens in New York this year, some shoppers saw something new beneath the price tag: a short, blunt line of text. "This price was set by an ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

New Yorkers got a little more visibility this week into when apps like Uber and DoorDash use algorithms to set prices. The state's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday. Under the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance that would prohibit landlords from employing algorithms to set rent and vacancy rates. The proposed ordinance would specifically ban the ...

Portland’s City Council is considering a ban on the use of algorithms to set rents, a practice that’s grown common among landlords who subscribe to real estate data services but which critics say ...

A bill to ban landlords from using services that aggregate apartment information to help them set rent prices is back again at the legislature, after failing in last year's legislative session.

Abstract: Survivable routing is crucial in backbone networks to ensure connectivity, even during failures. During network design, groups of network elements prone to potential failure events are ...