More than ever, even highly skilled workers find themselves being evaluated, rewarded, and punished by opaque algorithms. A new book, Inside the Invisible Cage, investigates. In this excerpt from the ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

How does the YouTube Shorts algorithm work? Todd Sherman, Director of Shorts Product Management, answers some of those questions you may have. Recently Todd Sherman took the time to speak with Creator ...

You meant to check your phone for two minutes. Forty-five minutes later, you are watching a stranger’s cat video, and you do not even remember how you got there. That’s not by chance. The most ...

Yet he is only the visible face of a profound transformation in how labour is managed, controlled and experienced in the digital age. What you do not see as he and others like him crisscross the city ...

Understanding how social media algorithms work offers advantages that extend far beyond simply getting more likes or followers. Experts in digital marketing and platform strategy reveal how this ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

It's only a matter of time before quantum computers reach the point where they can break commonly used encryption algorithms such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman, Diffie-Hellman and Advanced Encryption ...