The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

Some shoppers got prices that were up to 23% higher than prices available to other shoppers for the exact same items.

Nintendo is facing backlash after a gamer claimed part of Metroid Prime 4 Beyond is completely silent unless players buy a $30 amiibo to unlock its soundtrack. In a video with over 254,000 views, ...

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 ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

What Happened: This is pretty wild. There’s an AI-generated singer named Xania Monet who just became the first-ever artificial artist to land on multiple Billboard radio charts. We’re talking millions ...

What’s happened? Instagram is testing a new feature that gives users more control over the type of content they see on the platform. Why is this important? Instagram’s algorithm plays a major role in ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. TikTok’s algorithm, which shapes what more than a billion users see, has developed an almost mystical reputation for ...

Abstract: We present a simple performance bound for the greedy scheme in string optimization problems. Our approach generalizes the family of greedy curvature bounds established by Conforti and ...

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 ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

The market's assumption about ZIM is too negative, judging by the shipping rates and valuation multiples. The U.S.-China trade tensions certainly create uncertainties, but I see multiple potential ...