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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I would like to contribute an implementation of the IntroSort (Introspective Sort) algorithm in C. IntroSort is a hybrid sorting algorithm that begins with QuickSort, switches to HeapSort when ...

“It was...obvious that these types of steps, along with webbing that hadn’t been buddy-checked, could lead to catastrophic results,” an attorney said Kimberlee ...

Abstract: In the third generation of the Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS3), the size of Coding Tree Units (CTUs) has been expanded to four times larger than the previous generation, and more Coding ...

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 ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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 ...