An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The case of the so-called “monkey selfie” is a fascinating one when ...

If you're roaming the internet, you might run across recommendation engines. Some offer products or services you'd actually want to use, but does interacting with them harm your privacy even more?

Just in case technology wasn’t scary enough, researchers from MIT have developed a new AI-powered algorithm that’s perfect for all your Halloweekend needs. Meet Shelley (named after the creator of ...

“I wonder if we could teach a computer to spot serial killers in data,” Thomas Hargrove thought as he parsed the FBI’s annual homicide reports. The retired news reporter would soon answer his own ...

Staying competitive in the cutthroat cloud market requires more than just an aggressive feature release schedule. The top providers also continuously enhance their infrastructure to improve ...

Recent developments in atomic-force microscopy have enabled researchers to apply mechanical forces to individual molecules to induce chemical reactions. A research team has now developed a ...

When it comes to internet speed, small, often obscure things can make a big difference. Take the congestion control algorithm. A piece of code standardized in the 1980s, the algorithm slows data ...

Instagram has been enjoying a blockbuster of a year. It hit the 700-million-user mark in April, and last week the service celebrated the first anniversary of Stories-- the Snapchat clone that now has ...

They say if you fold 1,000 origami cranes out of individual sheets of paper your deepest wishes will be granted. I tried it once – I was a lonely college kid – and I ended up with pink eye. However, a ...