Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

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 ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

BOSTON – Grant O’Connor of West Hartford finished as the fifth American at the Boston Marathon last year. But last year was an Olympic year and many of the top Americans did not compete at Boston. “It ...

Monday is Patriots’ Day in Boston, and in keeping with tradition, the running of the 129th annual Boston Marathon. But when it comes to women’s freedom, something doesn’t add up. Since 2023, runners ...

Following code (with -O1) throws signal SIGFPE due division by zero. #include <cfenv> double calc(int field) { volatile int dField = 0; // make a or c non-zero to pass a without exception volatile ...

A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...

Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a ...