One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

The S&P 500's forward 10-year returns are often misrepresented as tightly and negatively correlated with its trailing P/E ratios. Statistical flaws—non-independent samples and outlier events—made the ...

Mr. Conte is the co-founder and chief executive of Patreon. The World Wide Web was introduced some three decades ago. Describing in 2019 the hopes that had been projected onto the internet at its ...

The messages from the chart, in most investors’ interpretation (especially the bears’ these days), are so clear that they are almost irrefutable. The most common interpretation is that the chart ...

The U.S. stock market has hit a rough patch, yet the S&P 500 index still hasn’t seen a major slump since staging a massive rebound from its April low. “The S&P 500 SPX has not seen so much as a 5% ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

There have been plenty of bingeable sitcoms over the years, like Friends, The Office, and more, but one series that stands above the rest has returned to the streaming spotlight several years after it ...

LOS ANGELES — Typically as we write this, Michigan football is en route to the airport. Not this week. The 15th-ranked Wolverines arrived in sunny southern California late Thursday, a full day earlier ...

The only good thing to come out of the Wisconsin football team's 27-10 humiliating loss to the Maryland Terrapins on Saturday, Sept. 20, is that the Badgers don't play next week. They're on a bye.

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Apollo economist Torsten Slok created another chart to illustrate how the booming AI trade is causing the S&P 500 to become increasingly concentrated. Slok ranks the weightings of the biggest stocks ...