It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Match Group, the company behind popular dating platforms like Tinder, OkCupid, and Match.com, has agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging it improperly shared millions of ...

Lego train sets have been available for decades, now. The Danish manufacturer long ago realized the magic of combining its building block sets with motors and plastic rails to create real working ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration. Observing ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

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 ...

If there’s one thing that we’re excited for this Holiday season, it’s the newest drop from LEGO. The Holiday Express Train is finally here and shoppers have been getting their hands on it since the ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

For the approximately 450,000 people released annually from US prisons, the chances are high that they’ll be back in a cell in 5–10 years. About 61 percent of state prisoners who were released in 2008 ...