Recommendation algorithms promise social media users a personalized experience, but some experts worry they promote doomscrolling, brain rot, and myriad mental health problems. Australia recently ...

The University of Southern California said it will lay off 65 workers in its Viterbi School of Engineering as it restructures amid budget cuts. The school is “restructuring its information technology ...

A coming-of-age story set in a nursing home challenges assumptions about aging while celebrating the power of friendship and hope. Playwright Ali Viterbi's play "The World to Come" received its world ...

Given a sentence, the tagger assigns each word a part-of-speech tag (noun, verb, adjective, ...) using a Hidden Markov Model: transition probabilities model how tags follow each other, emission ...

Teenagers want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to new research led by University College Dublin. Rather than passive victims ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

Bach's four-part chorales are written for a keyboard that cannot play them in tune. This project retunes each chord to the nearest set of low-number rational intervals, chord by chord, and then ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

If you haven’t seen the short video of a dancing ballerina with a human body and giant cappuccino cup for a head, consider yourself lucky. The nonsense meme is just one of countless pieces of ...