Meta is once again going after revamping Instagram's recommendation algorithm to boost original content and penalize accounts ...

They're called CAWs — or Computer-Assisted Wagering syndicates — and they're creating inequity between them and the common ...

Google has made a change that could affect the entire internet. When the algorithm shifts, websites, creators, and businesses all feel it. What seems like a technical update often has massive ripple ...

The first generation of parents to have resorted, at least occasionally, to mollifying their children by putting digital screens in their hands has now seen those kids grow up. The parents themselves ...

Readers respond to warnings that female teachers are increasingly having to cope with misogynistic behaviour from male students A quarter of female teachers have been the target of misogyny over the ...

A central question to TikTok's potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm — the secret sauce that powers its addictive video feed — after it's ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

What Google's Algorithm Crack Means for Web Security Google made a big shakeup to the cryptography world by announcing a public collision in the SHA-1 algorithm. The Wall Street Journal's Robert ...