Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

Aerial view of houses destroyed by armed gangs in the Solino neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. CLARENS SIFFROY AFP via Getty Images An advance team of soldiers from Chad arrived in Port-au-Prince ...

GSF aims to reach full force by summer Some 4,500 troops still to deploy to meet target Unclear who will provide additional troops, funds Some 1.4 million Haitians displaced by gang conflict ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

Learn how recommendation algorithms, streaming recommendations, and social media algorithms use content recommendation systems to deliver personalized recommendations. Pixabay, TungArt7 From movie ...

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 ...

View of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mssion base located near Port-au-Prince's international Airport Jose Iglesias jiglesias@miamiherald.com A longtime United Nations expert on peace ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

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 ...