LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

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 ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

People’s views are becoming more and more polarized, with “echo chambers”—social bubbles that reinforce existing beliefs—exacerbating differences in opinion. This divergence doesn’t just apply to ...

This past year, researchers at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario announced the development of a new artificial intelligence-enabled search algorithm that can help identify patients who might have ...

AI upstarts were supposed to lay siege to Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, the defense is winning. Google’s ubiquitous search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from the ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of long path planning time, excessive ineffective expansion nodes, and easy collision with obstacles that may occur when using traditional A* algorithm for unmanned ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the ...