Innovations such as chess, the concept of zero, and the idea that the Earth moved around the Sun all came from India, not ...

The WNBA is booming right now. Not only is the league hotter than ever, with ticket prices climbing past $1,000, but it’s officially become a fashion destination in its own right. WNBA tunnel outfits ...

More details are coming out about the Trump administration’s new TikTok deal, including what will happen to the app’s famous and secretive algorithm and what that will mean for users’ experiences. The ...

A deal to prevent a US TikTok ban is now in place. The app’s algorithm will be copied, overseen by Oracle, and retrained using only American user data. This new, separate system addresses national ...

A new crop of startups are betting on the rapid demise of traditional Google search. At least a dozen new companies are pouring millions of dollars into software meant to help brands prepare for a ...

Google announced a new multi-vector retrieval algorithm called MUVERA that speeds up retrieval and ranking, and improves accuracy. The algorithm can be used for search, recommender systems (like ...

Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files" which may lead to a "significant drop ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...