YouTube Music tips and algorithm insights reshape discovery in 2026 A blend of user-level hacks and industry-level algorithm insights is redefining how music is discovered on YouTube Music in 2026.

YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms are driving children to Russian-language content even when they seek out ...

New changes to Australia's social media minimum age policy quietly pave the way for tech companies to get around the ban.

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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 ...

The Brick is a small, $60 physical screentime barrier that allows users to "Brick," or block select apps and websites on phones.

Last month Live Nation, one of the largest live entertainment companies in the world, unexpectedly reached a settlement with the Department of Justice just one week into its highly anticipated ...

Meta and Google were held liable in a landmark US legal case this week that found the algorithms behind the most popular social media platforms are designed to be addictive to children and teenagers.

A jury in California agreed with a plaintiff who argued that Meta and Google, two social-media giants, designed their platforms to be addictive. That opens the floodgates to more litigation and ...

A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. By Cecilia Kang Ryan Mac and Eli Tan Cecilia Kang reported from ...

"This data borrows an algorithm that was originally used to rank chess players," says Michael. "The algorithm wants to figure out who is a 9 out of 10 and who is a 4 out of 10—and then match the 9s ...

Frustrated by YouTube feeding him Shorts and advertisements, PewDiePie set out to ‘fix’ the platform’s algorithm with his own AI. YouTube icon Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg famously trained his own AI ...