Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

No one waits for Cyber Monday to launch the internet's biggest holiday shopping surge anymore. We start shopping on Black Friday and don’t stop until our Santa’s bags of holiday goodies are ...

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.

Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

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The future of price fixing: Online shopping algorithms like Amazon's can learn to work with other sites to artificially inflate prices. Online shopping product prices are increasingly set by AI ...

The concept brings back the joy of browsing real books to communities where many bookstores have shut, and gives readers more eclectic choices than those suggested by online sellers’ algorithms ...

The AI behind retail websites has learnt the best strategy is to copy each other’s prices – and that can see them ‘collude’ to keep them high.