TikTok explains issues with its algorithm. TikTok users in the U.S. reported feed and content issues over the weekend. Issues followed the creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity, as ...

When Kathryn Ruemmler, a top Washington lawyer with an elite pedigree, joined Goldman Sachs GS-3.25%decrease; red down pointing triangle in 2020, she disclosed to top executives a connection that didn ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

Despite the impressive achievements of current generative AI systems, the dream of Artificial General Intelligence remains far away, notwithstanding the hype offered by various tech CEOs.[1] The ...

It's still early, but we've made it far enough into the 2025-26 NBA season to start flagging potential trouble spots. Every team entered the campaign concerned about at least one shortcoming, and ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

In the early days of crypto, Bitcoin was often dubbed "digital gold." This nickname allowed investors new to the crypto space to understand what kind of asset Bitcoin represented. While Bitcoin has ...

Few assets are ever worthy of becoming a type of digital gold. That's because most digital content can be copied and replicated easily by anyone, undermining its status as a scarce, finite asset.