Is your Spotify Wrapped a bluff? While digital algorithms track our listening, an analog "book stack" offers a deeper look at our intentions. From Timothy Snyder to Hans Fallada, here is how one ...

The modern digital world has its own pros and cons - it rewards quick adaptability, speed of tasks and deep focus, yet at the ...

Today’s music is sad and simple compared to decades past. In A Nutshell Stress language surged: Words related to stress, anxiety, and pressure increased 81% from 1973 to 2023, tracking alongside ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

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Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

The new silencers do not ban books, imprison thinkers, or storm newsrooms. They reside in the code. They move between cloud servers and data centers, attired in harmless user interfaces and ensnared ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Words like "rizz" and "skibidi" didn’t exist just a few years ago, but now they’re used and understood by millions of people. In his new book, Algospeak, linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic ...

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...