Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, says that addictive algorithms cause polarisation and should be made illegal, but he does not regret "opening Pandora's box" with his invention. Words ...

Actor Ryan Reynolds told attendees at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Friday that he is not "MAGA" or "extreme anything," recalling a moment when he suggested swapping phones with a ...

The Home Office could be banned from unlawfully using computer algorithms to recommend whether migrants should be deported. Privacy International has filed a ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

If you've been noticing a distinct change in the content you're seeing on Facebook recently, you aren't alone. Several members of the IndyStar newsroom have reported seeing a disproportionate amount ...

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 ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

OpenAI is adding a mental health assistant to make sure that users are not spending too much time on its artificial intelligence chatbot. The parent company of ChatGPT has issued an update that will ...