Google's latest update to its search engine has content creators up in arms because AI-generated content seems to be reaching the top of the results more easily. Google has a guide to address issues.
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U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has laid out plans for a legislative reform in areas concerning big tech firms. The focus is on transparency of algorithms, privacy, and youth safety.
The Columbia University's computer science department has developed a new algorithm that can be used to stop microphones and automatic speech recognition systems from spying on the public.
Meta's "first high-performance self-supervised algorithm", data2vec, for speech, vision, and text will allow machines to learn about their surroundings without depending on labeled data.
Google recently announced that it will soon stop individual tracking to preserve user privacy. But what does that mean exactly? We take a deep-dive around its proposed FLoC approach to find out.
Microsoft has developed a new machine learning model in order to autonomously detect password spray attacks. The model has vastly improved performance compared to its previous heuristic mechanism.
Mozilla is introducing a new browser extension, which will let users send in reports about recommended harmful videos. The browser extension is available for both Chrome and Firefox.
A report from WSJ disputes the company's claim that its algorithms are bringing people together. According to WSJ Facebook's algorithms aren't bringing people together. They were driving people apart.
At the Wyss Institute at Harvard, researchers have made an octopus-inspired soft robot complete with suckers that can grip and manipulate objects like eggs, balls, and even live crabs.
Employing the principles of quantum computing while running on a PC built with off-the-shelf components, Toshiba's Simulated Bifurcation Algorithm churns through market data in microseconds.
Instagram is rolling out a neat feature that provides a visual cue informing users that they have viewed all the feed posts in the past 48 hours. The feature is heading to its iOS and Android apps.
After years of complaints, Instagram is making some changes to feeds that will more likely show recent posts first. The change also arrives with a "New Posts" button that will give users more control.
Twitter is testing a new method that uses new algorithms to show more timely breaking news content to its users. The test involves a small number of iOS and Android users in the U.S.
An Australian musician and YouTube content creator has had his 10-hour long video of white noise struck by copyright claims via YouTube's automated ContentID system. He intends to dispute the claims.
Facebook is going to start cracking down on what it called engagement bait over the coming weeks. The company claims that people don't like the posts and consider them to be spammy.
The YouTube algorithm that automatically flags videos as problematic has struck again, this time blocking an ad from parent Google for its Chromebook. The issue was fixed, but not without screenshots.
Microsoft has conducted tests, such as the Weissman Score introduced by the TV show Silicon Valley, on Google's Brotli. It's endorsed the compression algorithm and announced an alpha preview for .NET.
Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that helps when it comes to diagnosing people with ADHD or autism-like disorders. To do this, they observed the behavior of a number of subjects.
As a move to provide better search results for users, Google is modifying its mobile search algorithm. It will now give a low ranking to websites which use invasive pop-up elements.
Twitter is reportedly planning to introduce a new timeline feature that arranges tweets on what an algorithm think a user wants to see. This sparked flak from users, with many complaints going around.
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One of Google's top engineers has hinted that the search engine may begin to favor encrypted sites over others in its search algorithm, in an attempt to improve web security.
While Microsoft continues to build its Windows and Window Phone Stores, recent changes to the ranking algorithms could impact the smaller developers trying to get their apps seen.
Google has made changes to its search algorithm in the last day or so that they claim are so subtle many wouldn't notice, but will still help reduce the ranking of low-quality websites. They define...
