Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard ...

Social media platforms could be forced to give users in Australia an option to turn off “powerful” algorithms under draft laws to be unveiled by the government this week, Communications Minister Anika ...

On social media, the algorithm drives which words go viral. TikToker and writer Adam Aleksic (@etymologynerd) argues that what we consume on platforms is changing our language on and offline. Aleksic ...

X is rolling out a "small tweak" to boost the visibility of your posts and replies to your mutuals, or people who you follow and who follow you back. The platform's head of product, Nikita Bier, ...

X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” — the people they follow who follow them back, head of product, Nikita Bier, said Monday. “We noticed this ...

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 ...

Ever felt like social media sites don't really care about your interests anymore, instead showing you random stuff you don't even like? Instagram is taking some steps to change that. Instagram chief ...

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, ...

Your Algorithm shows you the topics the system thinks you care about most and lets you act on them. You can see the full list, add topics you want more of, and ditch the ones you do not. Right now, ...

Let's face it—traffic is frustrating. We've all been there: sitting in a bumper-to-bumper queue on the main road, wishing we had taken that slightly longer detour which was probably completely clear.

The way Australians are assessed for home-based aged-care funding is being investigated by the Commonwealth ombudsman. Critics say assessment for funding under the Support at Home program is flawed, ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...