The impacts of social media algorithms are manifold: Algorithmically powered newsfeeds on social media threaten to destabilize countries and governments around the world, deeply impact mental health, ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

How to weigh your dental options. By Erik Vance Getting a filling at the dentist can be painful, expensive and generally miserable. A crown or a root canal is even worse. Still, you do it because your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dara-Abasi Ita covers AI in boring asset classes and boring markets. Banks have pulled back from bridge lending as CRE stress ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

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 ...

We applied the techniques outlined in Section 7 to implement a data-parallel algorithm that can convert stroked 2D Bézier paths into flat geometry suitable for GPU rendering. We focused primarily on ...

During production on the Argentinian Netflix sci-fi series “El Eternauta,” the filmmakers were looking to use visual effects to create a building collapse in Buenos Aires. But there was one major ...

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 ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

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 ...