At the start of 2025, my social media algorithms thought I was a budding sportsperson. As I prepared for a corporate triathlon with the vigour that only the start of a new year can inspire, my ...

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...

When I first learned about how Facebook and other social media platforms used our “algorithm” (preferred views, content or information) to keep us active online, I thought nothing much of it. But ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

The content recommendation algorithm that ‌powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the app's Chinese owner ByteDance signed binding agreements to ...