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 ...

National Signing Day has come and gone, but there’s still a lot left to be decided. The race for the No. 1 class is up in the air — and likely will be until the final player rankings are released next ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

NBA free agency is, for the most part, complete. Well, for one, each is a restricted free agent, meaning that their most recent team can match any offer sheet the player would sign with any other ...

In less than a week, all 32 NFL teams will have reported for training camp. Even then, there could be quite a few rookie holdouts. A total of 257 players were selected in the 2025 NFL Draft, but 31 ...

As training camp nears, most NFL teams still have a common piece of business pending. All but one of the 32 first-round picks have signed their rookie contracts but, as of Wednesday afternoon, 30 of ...

Shortly after this year’s NFL Draft, the Houston Texans signed second-round pick Jayden Higgins to a rookie contract. It was the kind of routine move that ordinarily might go unnoticed, except in this ...