Recommendation algorithms promise social media users a personalized experience, but some experts worry they promote doomscrolling, brain rot, and myriad mental health problems. Australia recently ...

Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications minister says. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...

Teenagers want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to new research led by University College Dublin. Rather than passive victims ...

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Sydney Jackson on Jun 23, 2026 at 8:27 am June 23, 2026 at 8:31 am A prototype of Codey, a humanoid social robot developed by ...

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For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

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, ...

Are the biggest AI labs betting on the wrong horse? Big AI companies are betting nearly all of their R&D and capital expenditure on the idea that pre-trained transformer models can deliver AI with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When robots reach the point of being just as good as, or even better than, humans at work in a couple of years, the only thing ...

If you haven’t seen the short video of a dancing ballerina with a human body and giant cappuccino cup for a head, consider yourself lucky. The nonsense meme is just one of countless pieces of ...

We don’t usually speculate on the true identity of the hackers behind these projects, but when [TN666]’s accoustic drone-detector crossed our desk with the name “Batear”, we couldn’t help but wonder– ...

It will also log this information to a file called selcal_log.txt located in the same folder as the script. There is also an option to lookup codes from a file called SELCAL_DICTIONARY.TXT, an example ...