A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Setti Warren was the first popularly elected African American mayor in Massachusetts. Warren, who served two terms as Newton's mayor, was a naval intelligence specialist in Iraq and worked for ...

The Patriots improved to an NFL-best 9-2 on the season with a 27–14 win over the Jets on Thursday night. It was New England's eighth straight victory, as the franchise has continued its ascent as one ...

We’ve seen a lot of late bloomers in the National Football League here lately, especially at the quarterback position. After both of them endured a rather abysmal start to their respective careers, ...

NEWSROOM WITH MORE ON THIS TODD, ANTOINETTE AND DOUG. GOOD MORNING. THE CURRENT MAYOR OF NEWTON, RUTHANNE FULLER, SAYS FORMER MAYOR SETTI WARREN DIED AT HIS HOME ON SUNDAY. THE CAUSE OF HIS SUDDEN ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.