Private equity and Big Tech are ruining your favorite brands. And here’s how. I think that we’re really at the frontier of algorithmic fashion. Brands can just create an algorithm and spit out fashion ...

The Federal Trade Commission is considering an enforcement policy that would put businesses on notice that using personal data to set individualized prices without adequate disclosure could violate ...

Numerous scandals this year have sparked a public inquiry into government and military insider trading on prediction markets. In some cases, arrests have been made. But a new investigation by the ...

A new bill seeks to compel any entity creating rental rates to reveal when algorithms are involved in setting prices for home rentals by leveraging the authorities of the Federal Trade Commission. The ...

Back in the day, your grandfather had to call his broker to buy or sell stocks. By the time your mom was investing, she could use an online broker and place orders herself. In the next technological ...

It’s not often that I speak with engineers about art. We always seem to focus on technology and the task at hand. But a recent conversation I had with engineers Dan Brennan and Sean Brennan, owners of ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. With New Jersey’s housing costs among the highest in the country ...

I spent years on Wall Street building the same models that gave big institutions their edge, watching the gaps and building the signals to close them. It became impossible to ignore how the tools that ...

University of Michigan Golf Course says it needs to close down its greens for repairs after an "unforeseen and highly unusual decline in the coloring of our putting surfaces." Earlier in July, U-M ...

WASHINGTON — The House passed a sweeping set of restrictions on stock trades by lawmakers and their spouses that was paired with a voter ID provision that scared off many Democrats. The “Stop Insider ...

Following years of demands that members of Congress limit their stock trading, the House passed a bill Wednesday that would bar lawmakers, their spouses and dependent children from buying individual ...

The House narrowly passed a bill to add new restrictions on lawmakers trading stocks after a partisan dispute resulted in a narrower proposal that stops short of an outright ban. The bill passed 232 ...