Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for ...

Jimmy Kimmel took a bold stand this Christmas, delivering a fiery address during Channel 4's annual Alternative Christmas ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The Department of Justice has declared a victory for renters after reaching a deal with a software company over a so-called secret algorithm used to set home rental prices. Landlords will no longer be ...

President Donald Trump previously suggested renaming Veterans Day to "Victory Day for World War I." Veterans Day was originally created to mark the end of World War I but now honors all US veterans.

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 ...

China hosted what it says was its "biggest" military parade for "Victory Day" on Wednesday, showcasing the country's growing military power while commemorating Japan's surrender at the end of World ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

President Donald Trump took a short break from ginning up votes for his One Big Beautiful Bill Act Monday afternoon to make an announcement entirely unrelated to domestic policy or war. “Trump ...