From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

Instagram users now have a new way to clean up their feeds — and, if they want, nudge their Reels toward more family-friendly ...

Spotify's Prompted Playlist will let users write a prompt that defines how the streaming service builds a playlist of ...

The new Instagram feature reveals what the algorithm thinks you like and lets you adjust it, reshaping how content gets ...

When someone walks into an emergency room with symptoms of a stroke, every second matters. But today, diagnosing the type of ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced ...

Instagram is doubling down on user empowerment with two major fronts: creator-centric upgrades to its Edits video app and a ...

Prompted Playlists are part of a broader effort to give users more control on Spotify — the streamer’s AI DJ got a similar ...

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.

Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision ...

In 1823, a radical thinker and academic named George Birkbeck founded the London Mechanics Institute (now Birbeck University). It was part of the vanguard dedicated to providing working class men and ...