For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I'll ...

Abstract: Large organizations often deploy isomorphic business subsystems across regions to facilitate uniform business control and expansion. These independent subsystems, which share identical data ...

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Just when you thought the circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer interface (BCI) startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs, which defines itself as ...

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 ...

We've all been there. You're driving down a highway before coming across signs informing you of an upcoming work zone and that one lane will be closing soon. There are two schools of thought on what ...