In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

Abstract: To overcome the drawbacks of the A* technique, including its slow search performance and tendency to produce irregular trajectories, along with the failure of the Artificial Potential Field ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed a former Pennsylvania homelessness official, Erin Dalton, to head the New York City Department of Social Services — following the sudden departure of the agency’s ...

Perhaps you’ve read about a new app that’s all the rage with students at some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges, including Sanford, MIT, Princeton and Columbia. “Date Drop” connects students ...

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 ...

All your social media feeds come from, where else, our great state of California, those entertaining apps on your phone and your laptop, useful, time-consuming ...

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Social media algorithms determine what billions of users see daily, yet most creators barely scratch the surface of how they operate. Platforms prioritize content ranking using engagement metrics, ...

The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...

Long before social media feeds or targeted ads, my mother used to say that life tends to show you the thing you're looking for. Or the thing you're afraid of. Or the thing you keep insisting you don't ...