Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

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 ...

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.

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

The first seven weeks of the 2025 NFL season have been thrilling. While not every game has come down to the wire or entered overtime, it's felt like most have been ripe for a tight finish. One could ...

If you think college football feels especially crazy at the halfway point, it's because it's been a truly loony season. Teams ranked in the top 10 of the Associated Press poll have lost 14 games ...

Every so often, a new type of workout seemingly takes the fitness world by storm. The latest in this long line of buzzy fitness fads: the Norwegian 4x4 workout, a high-intensity interval training ...

A year after making its world premiere, the ruggedest camper in Dethleffs' fleet gains some extra space up high, sleeping an entire family anywhere from the local camping resort to the most nonlocal ...

“A conservatorship exit could create incentives to return to practices which unfairly favor mega-lenders,” the letter states. “Thus, the PSPA G-fee parity/cash window provisions should be retained and ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

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 ...

We offer a unifying empirical model of covered and uncovered currency premia, interest rates and spot and forward exchange rates, both in the cross section and time series of currencies. We find that ...