Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., listens to testimony during a Sept. 20, 2023, Senate Environment and ...

A browser extension powered by AI can reduce how people feel about opposing political views, according to new research that looked into the 2024 US presidential election. Researchers in the United ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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 ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

There’s no escaping PDFs in your personal and professional life, but finding the right PDF editor can make all the difference in your ability to work with these files. With Acrobat, Adobe offers a ...

The original Doom is now playable in a custom PDF file, further contributing to its legacy of being ported to just about every platform under the sun. Developed by ading2210, a self-described “high ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...

It’s a situation many of us know all know too well: You find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media, only to realize that much more time has passed than you realized, or intended to spend ...