Morning Overview on MSN

AlphaFold rewired science, and 5 years later it’s still evolving

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of ...
Morning Overview on MSN

AI helped uncover a promising new superconducting material

Superconductors sit at the heart of some of the most ambitious technologies on the horizon, from lossless power grids to ...
Opinion

The 3D-Flow Architecture Breakthrough: A Universal, Scalable Digital Processor for Real-Time Pattern Recognition in High-Rate Data Streams — A Platform to Save Millions of ...

Worse, the most recent CERN implementation of the FPGA-Based Level-1 Trigger planned for the 2026-2036 decade is a 650 kW system containing an incredibly high number of transistor, 20 trillion in all, ...
Huron Daily Tribune

ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...

Scientists Unveil the Most Realistic Black Hole Accretion Model Ever Created

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
TechCrunch

Facebook updates its algorithm to give users more control over which videos they see

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Pattern Group Shares Rise 12% After Firm’s $300 Million IPO

Pattern Group Inc., an e-commerce firm that resells goods on marketplaces such as Amazon.com Inc., reversed an early slump to gain 12% in its inaugural trading day, after the company and some of its ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI in Schools? A Chinese Entrepreneur Is Betting on Algorithms As Teachers

On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...
Android

TikTok US Version Will Reportedly Use Chinese Algorithm

The US version of TikTok will reportedly still use the Chinese algorithm, but the American investors will have control over it. The latest report comes just a day after a deal with the US and China ...