The Facebook bubble just popped. Half the country today is still in shock. Reality crashed down and many were presented with a world that didn’t match up with the one they’ve inhabited in the months leading up to the U.S. election. As it turns out, that was Facebook’s world. The social media network has become an outsize player in crafting our understanding of the events… Read Morealgorithms
The Facebook bubble just popped. Half the country today is still in shock. Reality crashed down and many were presented with a world that didn’t match up with the one they’ve inhabited in the months leading up to the U.S. election. As it turns out, that was Facebook’s world. The social media network has become an outsize player in crafting our understanding of the events… Read More
If you want to print something a few inches tall, extruded plastic is a good medium. But when you need something at the nanometer scale, DNA is a better bet — but who has the time to design and assemble it base by base? New research lets would-be DNA origami masters design the shape — while an algorithm determines where to put our friends A, T, G, and C. Read MoreThis algorithm could make DNA origami as simple as 3D ...
This weekend, Apple’s App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store’s “New” and “What’s Hot” sections for certain categories. Unfortunately, this has been a longtime issue for Apple’s third-party application marketplace, and the subject of much developer frustration over the years. Read MoreApple’s Phil Schiller promises to address the issue of spammy ...
Twitter, playing all the hits since 2016.
The post What You Need to Know About Twitter’s Algorithmic Timeline appeared first on WIRED.
What You Need to Know About Twitter’s Algorithmic Timeline
Remember Twitter? Or, at least, that would seem to be the sentiment from parts of Twitter that are now shocked that the company is considering switching to an algorithmic timeline, according to a BuzzFeed report. Everyone panic! This changes everything! Twitter will never be the same. #RIPTwitter. There’s even a top trending hashtag for it. But before jumping to any conclusions, there… Read MoreTwitter May Introduce An Algorithmic Timeline And People Are Losing ...
It's better than just putting "Party In the USA" on repeat.
The post Spotify Party Is Your New Algorithm-Fueled Soirée DJ appeared first on WIRED.
Spotify Party Is Your New Algorithm-Fueled Soirée DJ
There are many visions of what our hyper-connected future might look like. We’re packaged countless variants on the shiny-techie-future vision theme every day as marketing departments lay it on thick to try to put gloss on their latest product and restless grease on the wheels of consumption… Read MoreHow Much Technology Is Too Much Technology?
A number of mobile app developers and industry observers recently noticed a significant change in the way the App Store’s search algorithms are returning results. Following a series of shifts that took place beginning on November 3rd, developers say that app search results now appear to be more intelligent, and far more relevant – especially among the top results – than in… Read More