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In Study 1, we recruit 500 residents of the United States and record their demographics and political leaning. Participants then indicate their prior beliefs on six topics. For each topic, ...

When I was a teenager, I wrote some terrible code. Here's why. Written with Sean Elliott. Directed by Tomek. Graphics by Mooviemakers. Audio mix by Haerther Productions. MORE BASICS: A playlist ...

While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, one of the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make the ...

Whistleblowers have given an inside view of the algorithm arms race which followed TikTok's explosive growth Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people's feeds, ...

Long before social media feeds or targeted ads, my mother used to say that life tends to show you the thing you're looking for. Or the thing you're afraid of. Or the thing you keep insisting you don't ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

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 ...

In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms. By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber welcomes ...

Sweeping new rules designed to deal with the "total Wild West" young people were experiencing online have now been in place across the UK for a month. Ofcom's Children's Codes require pornography and ...

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 ...

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