Algorithms are growing ever stronger. They measure and project mirrors of a pattern that once looked like someone adjacent to ...

“We need a Manhattan Project for this,” one economist says. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

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 ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

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 ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

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 ...

I’ve been covering Android since 2022, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones. I’ve got a bachelor’s in IT with a major in AI, so I naturally ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran an algorithm for a quantum computer that solved a complex physics problem thousands of times faster than the world's ...