Meta is giving Instagram users a rare glimpse into why certain posts are showing up on their Reels, the platform’s feed of algorithmically curated videos. Starting today, users will now see a list of ...

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 ...

After seven movies, the “Paranormal Activity” franchise doesn’t frighten audiences the way it once did — that is, through the power of suggestion, using home security cameras, smartphones and webcams ...

Threads is adding two new features to its app: Reply approvals and new filters in Activity feed. Reply approvals let you select which replies appear below your post, while hiding the rest from public ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Introduction: Cardiotocography (CTG) assesses fetal well-being through measurements of fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine activity (UA). Manual visual assessment of fetal tracings is variable due to ...

Differential privacy (DP) stands as the gold standard for protecting user information in large-scale machine learning and data analytics. A critical task within DP is partition selection—the process ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

A web-based Event Scheduling System that uses a Greedy Algorithm to schedule the maximum number of non-overlapping events across multiple venues. Built with Java (backend) and HTML/CSS/JS (frontend), ...