Meta is giving Instagram users a rare glimpse into why certain posts are showing up on their Reels, the platform’s feed of algorithmically curated videos. Starting today, users will now see a list of ...

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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.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

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When Christine Peringer attended her first United Nations climate conference in 2019, she was not exactly impressed. As a professional facilitator and a member of Mediators Beyond Borders ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday revealed further details of a deal reached between the U.S. and China over control of the popular social media platform TikTok, sharing that ...

Consensus mechanisms are the backbone of blockchain technology. They define how participants in a decentralized network agree on the validity of transactions and the state of the ledger without ...

A curated list of awesome resources, tools, research papers, and educational content on consensus algorithms. Consensus algorithms are fundamental to distributed systems and blockchain networks, ...

High-performance distributed job processing system with multiple consensus algorithms (Bully, Raft, Gossip), advanced load balancing, JWT auth, TLS encryption, and comprehensive monitoring via ...