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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

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In response to systematic censorship by social media, Palestinians and their allies have built a playbook of tactics to beat ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like YouTube also impair learning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when ...

The biggest lesson I’ve learned about working with social media algorithms is that you can’t chase the system; you have to ...

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A Pew Research Center study shows approximately 20% of teenagers report social media has damaged their mental health. Interacting with ...

Put simply, Spotify imagined a hypothetical current age based on how old you would’ve been when songs from your most-streamed ...