AUSTIN, Texas — Algorithms are complicated, and each social media platform uses a different one. But, simply, algorithms mean that social media platforms give you more of the things that you click on.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Researchers working on an Army-funded project have developed an algorithm to simulate how electromagnetic waves interact with materials in devices to create equipment ...

Facebook has allowed page owners to buy ads since 2009, and announced changes to its algorithm that resulted in decreased visibility in 2012. Until recently, however, Facebook was seen as an ...

If proprietary algorithms result in foreseeable harm to users, social media companies could be held liable in a court of law ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

The Federal Trade Commission recently reached a settlement with WW International, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers. The FTC and Department of Justice accused WW of illegally collecting ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

A k-means-type algorithm is proposed for efficiently clustering data constrained to lie on the surface of a p-dimensional unit sphere, or data that are mean-zero-unit-variance standardized ...