Your social media feed is designed to keep you scrolling. Most platforms rely on black-box algorithms to study what captures ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

The Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute (AQTI) today highlighted newly published research describing a breakthrough ...

YouTube has quietly shared new details explaining how viewers can directly influence what appears in their recommendations.

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in complex two-dimensional (2D) data, with potential applications ranging from ...

Instagram has introduced a new feature called “Your Algorithm” that gives users more control over the content they see in their Reels feed. The update uses artificial intelligence to better understand ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

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 ...

Shopping is no longer just about need, taste, or even persuasion. It is about prediction, feedback loops, and invisible ...