The social media feeds that once connected us are now driving us apart. We must regain control from big tech’s greedy and ...

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...

TikTok explains issues with its algorithm. TikTok users in the U.S. reported feed and content issues over the weekend. Issues followed the creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity, as ...

Abstract: The growth in e-commerce sales has been constant and, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, has exceeded previous expectations. Owing to social isolation, parcel lockers - systems for goods ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...