A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The chair of the House Select Committee on China said Thursday that a licensing agreement for use of the TikTok algorithm, as part of a deal by China-based ByteDance to ...

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 ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

The San Francisco 49ers’ injury report was most of the core of their NFC championship team from a couple seasons ago. They had to play extremely short-handed while going on the road on short rest ...

ByteDance to retain ownership of TikTok's U.S. business operations, sources say Joint venture to handle U.S. user data and algorithm, sources say ByteDance to control revenue-generating operations ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a “future trend.” It is embedded in today’s workflows and already reshaping tomorrow’s business models. For leaders, the question is not if AI will change their ...

The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban. By Emmett Lindner and Lauren Hirsch The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...