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 ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

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 ...

While applications to college for 2025-26 are up overall in this year's cycle, the number of international applicants has seen a sharp decline. The latest report from the Common Application points to ...

Quantum mechanics is a sub branch of physics that explores how photons, electrons, and other subatomic objects in the universe contain the attributes of both particles and waves, referred to as ...

OpenAI on Thursday announced it has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, a small company that developed a Mac product called Sky. All employees from Software Applications will join OpenAI.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Abstract: Tropical geometry has recently found several applications in the analysis of neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions. This article presents a new look at the problem of ...

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 ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...