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 ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor Siddharth Deshpande and PhD student Snehitha Srirangam use data visualizations to reveal what happens on an atomic level when catalysts convert shale gas into polypropylene. The ...

1. Get tax-free growth and withdrawals in retirement with a Roth One major reason to convert your traditional IRA or 401 (k) into a Roth is for tax-free growth. Because taxes are paid on your ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

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An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

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 ...

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...

The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...