Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile. TikTok, and many other platforms, use a “black-box” algorithm — an AI recommendation system that studies what captures ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Phillips & Associates reports AI algorithms are reshaping hiring practices, raising concerns over bias and legal accountability in discrimination law.

PewDiePie “fixed” YouTube’s algorithm using his own AI by asking it to remove all Shorts and recommended videos.

Platforms like Facebook and Instagram are under mounting pressure to reform the ways in which they're built to be addictive for users.

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 ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types of software, but due to ...