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From Instagram to TikTok, Noah Giansiracusa explores how secret formulas and algorithms run our lives.
Did the Facebook algorithm change? The simple answer is yes, because the algorithms that determine the content you see on your social media platforms are constantly evolving.
The FOCUS Act bans any wireless communication device during instructional hours.
Grover's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for search, can be used to prepare entangled states of many qubits efficiently. It can be physically implemented in atom-cavity systems by repeatedly ...
Algorithmic social media is driving the creation of new slang at a breakneck pace. Linguist Adam Aleksic, also known as the Etymology Nerd, explains how ...
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set ...
In its loss to Epic Games in court, Google has just a few weeks to implement some massive changes in the Play Store and Android.