Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

Abstract: In digital signal processing (DSP), the fast Fourier transform (FFT) serves as a core algorithm for converting signals from the time domain to the frequency domain and is widely applied in ...

When Charli xcx turned a simple aesthetic experiment into a cultural “Brat Summer” takeover on Instagram, she had the algorithm to thank. With 500 million Instagram users vying for attention daily, ...

Google's first broad core update of 2026 has finished rolling out. The March 2026 core update started March 27 and completed April 8. Google described it as "a regular update" and didn't publish a ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called "Dear Algo" that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. Threads users will be able to tell the Dear Algo tool what kinds ...

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 ...

When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's "for you" algorithm last month, Elon Musk said the move was a victory for transparency. "We know the algorithm is dumb and needs ...