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 ...

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 ...

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.

Centroid Investment Partners, TaylorMade’s current owner, hired JPMorgan and Jefferies to explore a sale of the company F&F Holdings, a Korean retail giant and strategic investor in TaylorMade, claims ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...

Python implementation of the adaptive seed (centroid) placement part in Adaptive-SNIC algorithm. Following figure shows the corresponding seeds produced by Adaptive-SNIC algorithm. It is clear that ...

Abstract: Determining the centroids of circular marks is a problem that arises in many applications, for example, fluid mechanics, computer graphics, coordinate meteorology, statistics, etc. The ...