Social media algorithms have received much blame for encouraging political polarization nationwide but solutions to the issue have proven elusive. A new op-ed in Wired suggests a novel approach to ...

Originally designed to drive revenue on social media platforms, recommendation algorithms are now making it easier to promote extreme content. Addressing this problem will require more than a ...

The idea echoes Haugen’s own suggestion. Both Lindsay and Haugen say companies such as Facebook would respond by abandoning their recommendation algorithms and reverting to feeds that simply show ...

Last week, it seemed that OpenAI—the secretive firm behind ChatGPT—had been broken open. The company’s board had suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman, hundreds of employees revolted in protest, Altman was ...

4 ideas for understanding and managing the power of algorithms on social media Your email has been sent What if tech companies had to release data about how algorithms work and software engineers had ...

This all sounds ludicrous until we realize that our algorithms are increasingly being made in our own image. As we’ve learned more about our own brains, we’ve enlisted that knowledge to create ...

When light emanates from distant stars, planets, and galaxies, it travels through Earth's atmosphere before it hits our eyes. Because shifting pockets of air affect the light traveling through the ...

Many embedded systems must regularly update multibyte data to EEPROM, flash memory, or a database server. This Design Idea presents a robust algorithm for this process that prevents data losses and ...