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When a senior Microsoft engineer floated the idea of wiping out C and C++ from the company’s codebase by 2030, the remark ...

In a LinkedIn post from Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt has generated a fair bit of talk after sharing his goal to "eliminate ...

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California is poised to be the first state to directly prohibit algorithmic pricing through antitrust law, a move legal experts say could trigger similar legislation across the country. A bill signed ...

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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 ...

From Nat'l Retail Fed'n v. James, decided yesterday by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): [T]he Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act … provides that any entity domiciled or doing business in New York that ...

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These days, it’s hard to ignore the sense that we’re being observed by devices as well as other people and our own self-observer. Within each of our minds is the self-observer, an awareness that ...

While it was once something only Wall Street players could afford, algorithmic trading is now accessible to smaller investors and startups. Algorithmic trading is when you use computer programs to ...