Bracketology Bubble Watch: Auburn, Texas A&M need to follow Georgia's lead and stop the bleeding

Both need to follow the lead of Georgia, which snapped out of a funk by winning at Kentucky on Tuesday night. That win bumped the Bulldogs from a No. 11 seed to a No. 10 seed in the CBS Sports ...

Bracketology Bubble Watch: UCLA, Ohio State face critical Big Ten battles as NCAA Tournament race heats up

This is a revenge spot for San Diego State, which took a 70-69 loss at Grand Canyon on Jan. 21. The Aztecs are right on the ...

Yann Poncin, child psychiatrist, on how social media algorithms cause addiction: “that novelty is what keeps you there”

Social media algorithms are designed to keep you scrolling endlessly sapping attention but one artist’s TikTok videos are ...

From sourdough to the far-right: How the tradwife trend is quietly radicalising women

Tradwife content on social media is more popular than ever, selling an ideal of femininity rooted in nostalgia. But behind ...
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How algorithms are quietly destroying society

The big thinkers at Aperture explore how algorithms influence behavior and societal norms. Alex Pretti spotted on camera moments before fatal shooting in Minneapolis Enormous freshwater reservoir ...
USA Today

March Madness bubble watch: Who should start worrying about NCAA tournament?

It's one of the most exciting things to watch yet one of the most excruciating places to be in college basketball: the NCAA tournament bubble. Even though Selection Sunday is more than 50 days away, ...
Opinion

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots ...
Diginomica

Something for the weekend - LinkedIn’s algorithm uses 'proxy bias' to suppress visibility. Here's who gets hurt

Reproducible experiments and testimony presented at a recent webinar suggest LinkedIn’s algorithms systematically reduce the visibility of anyone whose profile doesn't match the patterns the algorithm ...
Hackaday

Different Algorithms Sort Christmas Lights

Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...
The Washington Post

TikTok’s mental health ‘rabbit hole’? It’s not in your head.

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...
The Washington Post

Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...
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Ok Go’s Damian Kulash on reinventing the music video and resisting algorithms

Two decades after redefining viral creativity, Ok Go’s frontman reflects on DIY spectacle, analogue magic and resisting Tiktok-era metrics. Few artists have shaped the language of the modern music ...