Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

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 ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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 ...

A one-slide representation is the best way to win over employees and investors. by João Cotter Salvado and Freek Vermeulen On December 1, 2014, Cypress Semiconductor announced that it was acquiring ...

Some years back, on a New Year’s morning in the mid-1980s, I poured myself a cup of coffee, sat down with my goal-setting notebook, and visualized living in a house in the hills above Santa Barbara.

Picture yourself printing out this post to read later. Imagine the place you will sit while reading it. What do you see on the walls? What background sounds are in the room? Feel the weight and ...