During the past few years, parcel shipping has undergone a dramatic shift in pricing strategies: The industry is moving from static periodic rate adjustments toward dynamic pricing, where rates ...

Popular food delivery service Instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling them, ...

A Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently ...

Abstract: A switching linear dynamic system (SLDS) represents a system wherein the state evolution model randomly switches between several operation modes over the observation interval. Bayesian, ...

In the first half of 2025, linear television continued to decrease while in the US, streaming overtook linear TV in May, as measured by Nielsen’s The Gauge study. According to figures and analysis ...

Considering the characteristics of large slenderness ratio structure, it is reasonable to simplify the dynamics of a HALE aircraft as the plunge, pitch, and flap motions of a planar airfoil. The ...

Marcus Patel felt a mixture of pride and unease as he stood at the head of the conference table, waiting for his leadership team to gather. Two years ago he’d been recruited from Silicon Valley to ...

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth in Uganda for the period 1990 to 2023 using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model. The ...

Why predicting power behavior is getting harder for AI chips. Dynamic Power Analysis: Closing the pre- versus post-silicon gap. The massive complexity and computational needs of today’s most advanced ...

Abstract: Dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) addresses the power supply limitations of magnetically levitated transport systems reliant on rigid cables, yet receiver motion introduces undesirable ...