TikTok engages more than 170 million Americans with its endless scroll and viral content, but as a potential sale for the popular platform nears, experts are concerned about the future of the app's ...

How social media algorithms work and proven tips to boost social feed reach using engagement timing, content signals, and audience interaction strategies.

Even if your network knowledge runs deep there’s a high chance you haven’t heard of Nagle’s Algorithm. Named after its creator, John Nagle, this algorithm plays a part in the efficient operation of ...

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 mother shares how AI algorithms fed her friend's son suicide content, leading to his death, and warns of new AI dangers.

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...

LinkedIn changed its algorithm. Here's what founders need to update on their profiles to make sure the right people find them ...

Other algorithms did not survive.“Cryptographers and applied cryptographers don’t like to point this out, he chuckles. In the entire history of modern cryptography, there’s only ever been one provably ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...