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 ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

In this introspective video essay, we explore the realities of modern content creation and the influence of the YouTube algorithm. From analytics-driven decision-making to the struggle between ...

In a landmark decision, a California jury has awarded $3 million to a 20-year-old woman who claimed Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube intentionally design their platforms to be addictive and ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

The property at 305 Route 66 in Adrian, Texas, opened in 1928 as a one-room, dirt-floored eatery called Zella's Café. Through the years it’s had a whole bunch of owners and has been called Jesse's, ...

The New York Times reviewed these clips, along with more than 1,000 other videos recommended to young children on YouTube, and found that the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is openly looking at changing the order protection rule (OPR, Rule 611). We recently looked at how often markets are actually locked and crossed. It ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...