Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.
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CMAT fires back at body-shamers after BBC performance

Irish singer Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, known by her stage name CMAT, has experienced a meteoric rise—deservedly so—over the past year, thanks to the phenomenal EURO-COUNTRY, which we named the ...
Mashable

Amazon used AI to promote diversity. Too bad it’s plagued with gender bias.

AI may have sexist tendencies. But, sorry, the problem is still us humans. Amazon recently scrapped an employee recruiting algorithm plagued with problems, according to a report from Reuters.
theregister

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

OBIT Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds ...
Quanta Magazine

Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

Real estate agents will tell you that a home’s most important feature is “location, location, location.” It’s similar in neuroscience: “Location is everything in the brain,” said Bosiljka Tasic, a ...
The Guardian

‘I almost tripped on the carpet!’ The boom in regency balls

Fans of Jane Austen and Bridgerton delight in recreating historical dances – but how do they learn the right moves? Inside the high-arched lobby of the Bank of England Museum, lines of women in ...
The New York Times

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript “Our brains are being melted by the algorithm.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Attention is infrastructure.” “Those algorithms are ...
Time

How the Secret Algorithms Behind Social Media Actually Work

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The New York Times

At Jacob’s Pillow, a High-Tech Theater Rises From the Ashes

Performances in N.Y.C. The Doris Duke Theater, which burned down in 2020, has been rebuilt as a hub for dance and technology. “Lamentation: Dancing the Archive,” by Xin Ying in collaboration with Alan ...
Mental Floss

10 Fascinating Facts About ‘Ex Machina‘

Alex Garland‘s Oscar-winning sci-fi film features one of the most memorable dance sequences of the past decade. The Juvet Landscape Hotel in Norway was used as Nathan‘s house. The hotel prides itself ...
Wired

A Popular Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye

When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one question would come up again and again as victim organizations, cybersecurity ...