Recommendation algorithms promise social media users a personalized experience, but some experts worry they promote doomscrolling, brain rot, and myriad mental health problems. Australia recently ...

Geese, the indie rock sensations whose breakout last year led to accusations of an astroturfing campaign, have addressed the fallout from their association with the digital marketing agency Chaotic ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...

Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications minister says. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...

what the full pack contains before buying anything. Each sheet is built on its own weighted network. Question 1 is the trace table, one row per vertex settled, with tentative distances and the vertex ...

Teenagers want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to new research led by University College Dublin. Rather than passive victims ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

The algorithm for managing samples suspected of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) standardizes the procedures for the selection, collection, storage, and shipment of high-risk biological samples within ...

The Australian biotech company Cortical Labs recently posted a video in which 200,000 living human neurons grown on a silicon chip played the 1993 first-person shooter Doom. The neuron-controlled main ...

If you haven’t seen the short video of a dancing ballerina with a human body and giant cappuccino cup for a head, consider yourself lucky. The nonsense meme is just one of countless pieces of ...

The ISTA team’s interdisciplinary study combines expertise in information theory, mathematics, genomics, and software engineering. From left to right: Al Depope, Jakub Bajzik, Marco Mondelli, and ...