Social media platforms could be forced to give users in Australia an option to turn off “powerful” algorithms under draft laws to be unveiled by the government this week, Communications Minister Anika ...

Have you ever noticed a particular number appearing in your life over and over again? Perhaps every time you pass by a house, it seems to be number 222? Maybe your microwave always seems to be set to ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A personalized cancer vaccine developed by ...

It's a common occurrence: You have your fully charged laptop plugged in before you, but your smartphone is seriously lagging behind. So, you unplug the charger from your laptop and use it with your ...

Certain numbers will tell the story of a season. Obviously, win total is first and paramount, but so many other metrics go into that macro total and determining good teams from bad teams and dictating ...

Toasted Apples might sound tasty, but they are a real problem in Jessa Jones’s repair shop. Jones has seen plenty of scorched devices in her 14 years running iPad Rehab Microsoldering repair service.

Elementary school students might memorize their times tables for single-digit numbers, but memorization won’t cut it when the teacher asks for three-digit multiplication. This requires an algorithm: ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. A Wall Street Journal article asked people to imagine what entertainment might look like twenty years from now. Some of the ...

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 ...

As Pokemon cards continue to grow in popularity, fans are greeted by empty shelves more often than not. That has led many frustrated collectors to ask why The Pokemon Company doesn’t just print more ...

Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos courtesy of Jules Fennell, Rebecca Tauber, Sophia Mitropoulos for The Athletic NEW YORK — Most mornings, Sophia Mitropoulos, 30, sets off from her ...