Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called on X to use blockchain and ZK-proofs to make its content-ranking algorithm verifiably fair and censorship-resistant. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is ...

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 ...

Declaring one Christmas song to be more annoying than all others is a brazen act, given the sheer number of terrible Christmas songs that exist. Let’s get a few of the obvious offenders out of the way ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

The popular children's gaming platform has tens of millions of users. Roblox is introducing a new safety measure aimed at protecting its young users amid a recent increase in lawsuits against the ...

China’s state-sponsored hackers used artificial-intelligence technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the ...

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. When did having lots of followers lose its inherent appeal? It’s a post-pandemic phenomenon. During the ...

In 2014, Halle Berry starred in the sci-fi series “Extant” where she played an astronaut struggling to conceive. Her husband, a robotics engineer, created a lifelike android whom the couple took in ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...