Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

Ms. Novak is an author and a professor of creative writing. When I bought tickets for my dad and me to see Adam Sandler live at the United Center in Chicago as part of Mr. Sandler’s national tour, I ...

Alphabet has long been exploring quantum AI technology. The company has engineered its own chip, called Willow, which just achieved a major breakthrough. Quantum computing could be the next big ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

As social media platforms increasingly rely on algorithms to moderate content, online communities are changing how they speak to evade their censors. Sensitive or suggestive topics such as suicide and ...

Adam Sandler is getting back on the road. Two years after his sold-out shows for I Missed You, the Sandman is setting off on a 30-city fall arena tour across the U.S and Canada. The new tour, titled ...

Only seconds into the podcast, Adam Friedland shat himself. It seeped through his white linen pants onto his red camping chair, leaving a “little puddle of diarrhea,” per cohost Stavros Halkias, who ...