A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...
Washington Times

Musk pledges to open Twitter’s algorithm up to public, says it will improve

Twitter owner Elon Musk is pledging to open up the social media platform’s algorithm for public viewing, as he makes changes to how the company recommends content to users. Twitter has experimented ...
Nature

Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls

Studies of diversity in academic publishing arrive regularly in the scientific literature. But where do the data come from? Publications don’t usually include demographic data such as the gender, race ...
The Tufts Daily

Novel algorithm for matrix multiplication opens door to more efficient human-computer interactions

What do encrypted messages, recognizing speech commands and running simulations to predict the weather have in common? They all rely on matrix multiplication for accurate calculations. DeepMind, an ...
Bleeping Computer

Twitter open-sources recommendation algorithm code

Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline. However, the code made public ...
The Atlantic

The New ‘Transparent’ Twitter Isn’t Very Transparent

Elon Musk offered a rare look into the social platform’s algorithm. Experts say you shouldn’t take it too seriously. The move was unprecedented, but this probably won’t go down as a great day in the ...