For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, one of the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Tim Higgins: A lot is written about Elon Musk. What did he say when you told him ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

President Trump this week complained that America’s allies hadn’t stepped up to help break the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “Some are very enthusiastic about it, and some aren’t,” he said ...

A new study published 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 a more ...