It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

A Reinforcement Machine Learning Minesweeper Algorithm written in Java. It learns Minesweeper by failing repeatedly and learning from its mistakes. It scans a Minesweeper board for subsets of numbers, ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

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 ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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Ten years later, and Microsoft is still trying to charge you a subscription to play Solitaire without ads. And pretty much everything else, too. It’s no joke. I wrote about the Microsoft Solitaire ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Spider, Minesweeper, and Hearts—these longtime staples of Windows (plus other familiar titles, from Solitaire to ...

If you had a Microsoft computer in the 90s, chances are you've probably come across the classic logic puzzle game Minesweeper. Released by Microsoft in 1990, the game board is composed of squares, the ...

The evolution of what posts get top billing on users’ news feeds, and what gets obscured Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism ...