There's an iconic scene at the end of the 1985 film "Back to the Future" when Doc Brown returns from 2015 to warn Marty McFly and his future wife, Jennifer, that their future children have "problems." ...

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Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

The EU is threatening to take action against the social media company. It could be the start of a global reckoning. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

TikTok has reached a deal that will allow it to keep operating in the United States, with a majority American-owned joint venture, but the terms could change the algorithm for users in the U.S. The ...

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...

The country’s top internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), requires that any company launching an AI tool with “public opinion properties or social mobilization capabilities" ...

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...

The Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers meet for the third time this season, this time in the Divisional Round. The 49ers won the first matchup 17-13 in Seattle, with the Seahawks coming away ...

Elon Musk says social platform X will open-source a new recommendation algorithm within seven days, exposing all code behind organic and ad post suggestions and updating it every four weeks with ...