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Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

Milkbasket’s founder Anant Goel has rebranded his fruits and vegetable (F&V) focused omnichannel startup Sorted to “Handpickd”. Under Sorted, the company explored offline distribution of fruits and ...

If File Explorer’s Sort by Date Modified is not working correctly on your Windows 11 PC, read this post. We will guide you through some effective troubleshooting steps to quickly resolve the issue.