Twitter patents and other publications reveal likely aspects of how tweets become promoted in the timeline feeds of users. Some of Twitter’s timeline ranking factors are very surprising, and adjusting ...

An Israeli biotech company recently said that a study has endorsed what it describes as a new risk factor for heart disease as analyzed by the company’s proprietary algorithm. The predictive power of ...

Clinical algorithms may improve if race variables are replaced with causal factors associated with race, such as healthcare access, education and economic position, according to a study published Jan.

Many factors can affect rankings after a core algorithm update. It’s not always about the helpfulness of content, there are other factors that can play a role in why the algorithm changed and ...

In 2014 when the program launched, the social network had already tuned the News Feed into a powerful engine, sucking up our ...