Amazon (AMZN) is receiving criticism after a Wall Street Journal report detailed the online retailer's use of an algorithm — named "Project Nessie" — designed to raise consumer prices and ultimately ...
Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites and “destroyed” some internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission was investigating the ...
This paper presents a "branch and bound" algorithm for the following problem: given a project consisting of a set of activities partially ordered by a set of precedence restrictions, with each ...
In a nutshell: A redacted portion of the FTC's monopoly lawsuit against Amazon accuses the tech giant of using a secret pricing algorithm that allowed the company to see how far it could raise its ...
In his first public remarks since an industry day held on October 24, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, leader of the Department of Defense’s Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team(AWCFT), described the ...
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When we google a topic, many of us trust that something called "the algorithm" will magically serve up the right information. But what is this algorithm? How does it work? And are we all getting ...
The reputation of UK government technology projects - and by extension that of the government itself - has been hard hit lately, not least due to last week's A-level exam results disaster. Firstly, ...
Since Lina Khan became Federal Trade Commission chair in 2021, she’s taken on Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, and that’s made her a lightning rod for controversy. WSJ breaks down the battles she’s picked ...