Hurricanes standout Sebastian Aho was beaming when he learned Monday that Carolina will face the Seattle Kraken in two games in his homeland of Finland next season. The contests, slated for Nov. 12 ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

A proposed affordable housing development at 2072 Massachusetts Ave. completed its second review by the Cambridge Planning Board on Tuesday, advancing a 12-story project in Porter Square. The ...

It is with great sorrow that the family of James ‘Jim’ R. Aho announces his sudden passing on February 12, 2026, at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. He was born on June 5, 1954, in ...

Maybe it was because they knew they were preventing Sweden from finishing above them in the group. Maybe it was because they were facing the coach who helped Finland win the gold at the 2022 Olympics.

Sebastian Aho, right, of the Carolina Hurricanes and Team Finland, chats with Oliver Kapanen during training at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on Feb. 9 ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come ...

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.