Axios also suggests “pruning” the algorithm and training it to know what you want. By holding down on a video, an option to tap “Not Interested” will pop up. Using that will help the algorithm know to ...

Your social media feed is designed to keep you scrolling. Most platforms rely on black-box algorithms to study what captures your attention and drum up more of it. What keeps your attention? Typically ...

YouTube has quietly shared new details explaining how viewers can directly influence what appears in their recommendations.

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 ...

The Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute (AQTI) today highlighted newly published research describing a breakthrough ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shopping is no longer just about need, taste, or even persuasion. It is about prediction, feedback loops, and invisible ...