It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

Learn how recommendation algorithms, streaming recommendations, and social media algorithms use content recommendation systems to deliver personalized recommendations. Pixabay, TungArt7 From movie ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The fall took place in an instant, but the descent felt like it would never stop. As Alec Luhn tumbled down a steep mountain face in Norway’s Folgefonna National Park — bouncing off rocks and grasping ...

An American hiker described how he survived one week in the wilderness with horrific injuries. In July, Luhn traveled to Norway along with his wife, Veronika Silchenko, and the rest of his family for ...

Almost everything had gone wrong on Alec Luhn’s solo hike in a national park in Norway. Luhn, 38, had spent six days without food, water or a working phone, as he dealt with serious injuries. But then ...

Alec Luhn, the journalist from Wisconsin who spent six days stranded on a remote Norway mountain before being rescued, said his family gave him the hope and will to survive. "Just thinking about my ...

NEW YORK -- Alec Luhn, a 38-year-old journalist who has worked for The Guardian, The New York Times and The Atlantic, is speaking out for the first time since his dramatic rescue in Norway. "I was ...