Boys as young as 15 exposed to content such as Holocaust denial and false claims about 9/11 on social media Patrick Sawer is an experienced Senior News Reporter for The Telegraph who previously worked ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Talk about a reaction function: It took less than 10 minutes after the S&P 500 closed in the red for President Donald Trump to declare a cease-fire extension. Granted that cease-fire still has the ...

In 2008, when the housing bubble burst and the global economy crashed, policymakers were caught flatfooted. Despite months of worry and concern about a housing bubble, signs of financial institutions ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

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The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...

Reproducible experiments and testimony presented at a recent webinar suggest LinkedIn’s algorithms systematically reduce the visibility of anyone whose profile doesn't match the patterns the algorithm ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

There’s a raging debate in markets about the sustainability of today’s high stock valuations. On the bearish end are investors like Jeremy Grantham and Michael Burry, who are famous for having spotted ...

Broken down to the basics, quantum computing involves the use of specialized computers that are capable of rapid, simultaneous calculations, which are considerably faster than the world's quickest ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...