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As social media companies face scrutiny over addictive design features, mental health experts cite a stream of breakup content as an example of the failure to protect users.

A confidential internal document reportedly shows TikTok kept around 15 million US users on an older recommendation algorithm after developing a safer alternative in 2021. The reported decision, made ...

For decades, the fusion reactor design known as a stellarator has had a specific, documented, expensive problem: designing the magnetic coils that make it work. The coils must simultaneously satisfy a ...

My final dispatch from Locarno is probably the most varied of the quartet that I’ve filed. Fittingly, it’s composed of four ...

They combine proprietary indexes with real-time web retrieval and task-specific search policies rather than applying the same search algorithm across every domain.

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Users can also tailor their pages with a background color or a whimsical custom cursor of their choice. “We wanted it to feel like it could really be ownable by the person,” says Stockman. “So it’s ...

As Bangladesh marks the second anniversary of the July Uprising, the defining image of twenty-first-century politics is no longer simply the crowd gathered in a public square. It is the smartphone ...

The real story of pre-Google search is not that early engines were inferior. It’s that they reflected a different Internet ...