As social media becomes increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds, creators are navigating a new normal: Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. “I think that 2025 was ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Add a visualizer for the KMP (Knuth-Morris-Pratt) String Search algorithm. This is a cornerstone of string-matching algorithms, and this feature will help users understand its two-phase process: ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

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 ...

The TikTok algorithm, built by its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., is what has made the app so popular with half of America. The enormously powerful technology can master the intricacies of our ...

Chris Wedel is a seasoned technology journalist with a rich background writing for top publications like CNET, Android Police, and Digital Trends. His work spans the consumer electronics landscape, ...