Explainer: What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...
Indiatimes

Explainer: Making sense of India’s 8.2% growth - and IMF’s ‘C’ on GDP data

India's economy is reportedly growing at an impressive 8.2%, yet the IMF has assigned its national accounts a 'C' grade due to methodological weaknesses. This rating highlights concerns about outdated ...
Phys.org

Potentially distinct structure in Kuiper belt discovered with help of clustering algorithm

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...
Reuters

Google says it has developed landmark quantum computing algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...
Forbes

TikTok Deal Would Let U.S. Owners Control Algorithm And Data

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society. A preliminary TikTok deal proposes U.S. investors own 80% of its ...
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
The New York Times

U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says

The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban. By Emmett Lindner and Lauren Hirsch The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and ...
Forbes

C-Suite Lessons From Joe Sullivan And The Uber Data Breach

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. When the Uber data breach made headlines in 2017, it wasn’t just ...
collider

How TikTok, Streaming, and Algorithms Are Rewriting Song Structure

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
C&EN

RosettaAMRLD: A Reaction-Driven Approach for Structure-Based Drug Design from Combinatorial Libraries with Monte Carlo Metropolis Algorithms

Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, United States Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, United States Department of ...
Booth School of Business

A Hiring Algorithm That Isn’t Vulnerable to Biased Data

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...