People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Tech firms and airlines use AI for personal pricing, charging customers differently for the same product based on browsing ...

Most platforms give you some control over what appears in your recommendations and ‘for you’ feeds. Most platforms give you some control over what appears in your recommendations and ‘for you’ feeds ...

Instagram debuted “Your Algorithm,” an AI-powered feature that gives users control over their Reels recommendations The tool shows an AI-generated summary of interests (e.g., “creativity, sports hype” ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

A woman sits behind a ring light and takes pictures of herself. Credit - Niklas Graeber—picture alliance via Getty Images “The camera eats first.” A decade ago, that phrase might have been a joke ...

Recursive / Stack → climbing stairs with a backpack (stack grows with height). Morris Traversal → climbing stairs using only your hands on rails (no extra backpack). Threaded Tree → installing ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

VANCOUVER, BC, July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamsoft has announced the release of version 11.0 of its Barcode Reader SDK for JavaScript edition, introducing improvements in barcode recognition ...

NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the ...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...