An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

The WNBA is booming right now. Not only is the league hotter than ever, with ticket prices climbing past $1,000, but it’s officially become a fashion destination in its own right. WNBA tunnel outfits ...

Instagram is experimenting with bringing tools to control your own algorithm to Threads, its X rival. The feature was uncovered while in development by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who ...

After years of drama over TikTok’s future in the United States, there’s finally a resolution. Probably. Here’s what we know, and what we don’t know yet, about how a new American TikTok would work.

A deal between the U.S. and China over the ownership of TikTok includes new stipulations over who controls the social media company's algorithm, a closely guarded secret which has proved to be a major ...

TikTok’s algorithm and board of directors will be “controlled by America” as part of a deal reached with China earlier this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday, following ...

The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday. “We are 100% ...

Both US and Chinese officials are stating that an agreement has been reached for an American TikTok spin-off to be sold to American investors. It’s not the first time the Trump administration has ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Part of providing pronunciation feedback involves aligning a target phonemic sequence (the sounds made by the actor reference) with the user phonemic sequence (the sounds the user makes when trying to ...

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