Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Long before computers, humans encoded procedural knowledge as branching "if-then" rules, from divine omens to long division. This video traces how the simplest logical structure became the foundation ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Ford’s Raptor models have become a hit worldwide, but something even wilder is coming soon, as confirmed by CEO Jim Farley. Ford is developing a road-ready Raptor inspired by its Dakar Rally T1+ race ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

If the Porsche 911 GT3 is the poster child for a fast track car you can easily drive every day, Ford’s F-150 Raptor is its dirt-covered analogue. With the current-generation Ford F-150 Raptor R, the ...

Warburg Pincus has acquired Raptor Technologies, a Houston-based provider of school safety software, from Thoma Bravo. No financial terms were disclosed. As part of the transaction, JMI Equity, an ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...