UK prime minister Keir Starmer has set a "months" timeline for the long-brewing plan for a social media age limit, signaling ...

TikTok has reached a deal that will allow it to keep operating in the United States, with a majority American-owned joint venture, but the terms could change the algorithm for users in the U.S. The ...

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine ...

He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. is the Verge’s weekend editor.

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

When a California family court handling surrogacy petitions realized a Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and learned he had already fathered or was in ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly, exactly the way you want it.’ With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly ...

Winners & losers: As Black Friday deals flashed across screens in New York this year, some shoppers saw something new beneath the price tag: a short, blunt line of text. "This price was set by an ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...