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Adam Presser, formerly of WarnerMedia, was appointed today as the CEO of the USDS Joint Venture and is set to "secure US user ...

The announcement marks the latest in a string of commitments from Musk to open-source the technology behind X's recommendation engine. Previous promises, however, have seen uneven ...

Instagram debuted “Your Algorithm,” an AI-powered feature that gives users control over their Reels recommendations The tool shows an AI-generated summary of interests (e.g., “creativity, sports hype” ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

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 ...

Recursive / Stack → climbing stairs with a backpack (stack grows with height). Morris Traversal → climbing stairs using only your hands on rails (no extra backpack). Threaded Tree → installing ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...