Greed isn’t always as obvious as someone hoarding stacks of gold like a modern-day dragon. Sometimes, it’s subtle, wrapped in polished manners, or cleverly disguised as ambition. The signs of greed ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

So far, not so good! No doubt, with the S&P 500 piercing correction territory (10% decline from the highs) on Thursday, traders aren’t shaking things off as well as Scott Bessent. The U.S. Treasury ...

Car dealerships exist to extract their bit of profit from you in a car-buying transaction by offering you sketchy loan terms and rushing their techs into doing expensive, shoddy repair work when you ...

A bride-to-be is facing unexpected conflict with her fiancé over how to spend their wedding budget. The 28-year-old woman and original poster (OP), Reddit user Strong-Presence-8273, shared her dilemma ...

Greedy people often take more than they need and don’t have much sympathy for the people they take from. There are several reasons for this, but one in particular is that greedy people will never ...