TikTok’s algorithm set to move from Chinese control to Big Tech under Trump’s deal to save app

White House says it has finally reached an agreement with China to secure the future of the popular social video app in the U ...
SpaceNews

Big data, advanced algorithms and new approaches for space missions

Cosmonaut Nikolai Chub working on the Russian segment of the International Space Station during an April 2024 spacewalk. Credit: NASA MILAN – Spacewalks, often a highlight of space missions, are ...
The Next Web

Bioniq taps big data algorithms to make supplements bespoke

London-based startup Bioniq, which creates hyper-personalised supplements for its customers — who range from pro athletes to regular people on the quest for longer life — has gone global. “STOP ...
NextBigFuture

New Sorting Algorithm Breakthrough is Better than Dijkstra

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the ...
Search Engine Land

Businesses, users, experts defend big tech against algorithm lawsuits

The outcome of a Supreme Court case could have significant implications for how internet companies operate, content curation and free speech. On Thursday, a diverse group of individuals and ...
The New York Times

Algorithms Are Making Kids Desperately Unhappy

Mr. Murphy is the junior senator from Connecticut. Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that ...
NextBigFuture

New AI Algorithm Can Reduce LLM Energy Usage by 80-95%

New Linear-complexity Multiplication (L-Mul) algorithm claims it can reduce energy costs by 95% for element-wise tensor multiplications and 80% for dot products in large language models. It ...
Mother Jones

The Supreme Court’s Big Algorithm Fail

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last Tuesday, as the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in key cases that ...
KQED

Big Ideas, and Big Chaos from the Algorithm, in 'Big Data' at ACT

There is a specific and toxic level of melancholia that comes with modern life. Certainly, having the world at one’s literal fingertips makes for infinite possibilities. No longer do archaic fossils ...