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 ...

For many media organizations, the threat of "Google Zero" is increasingly becoming a reality. Between November 2024 and November 2025, traffic from Google ...

If you're going to force me to talk to the computer, it better be smarter than this.

Nathaniel T. Bradley is founder and CEO of Datavault AI, an AI-driven data monetization company. While algorithms are ...

Fragmented online systems leave businesses exposed to uncertainty, with limited control over how they’re perceived. Managing that tension is now part of doing business.​ ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel Balanced Binary Whale Optimization Algorithm (BB-WOA) designed specifically for dynamic feature selection in Green Cloud Computing (GCC). Traditional feature ...

Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

Retention analysts say Shorts older than 28-30 days are being deprioritized in recommendations. The reported shift affects channels ranging from 100 million to one billion monthly views. Creators warn ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...