Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature. Will Google save the web, ...

I’m old enough to remember the excitement and anticipation that came with starting up your internet modem. The series of beeps, squeaks, and static-filled whistles – to me, it sounded like a robot ...

Algorithms and clickbait are stripping the internet of the adventurous spirit it was built on, but we can bring it back, writes Kyle Duckitt I’m old enough to remember the excitement and anticipation ...

In recent months, X has become a focus of political conversation in the UK, with social media experts and politicians saying ...

As Threads users grumble about the lack of recent posts in their feeds, the state of social media is increasingly all about the algorithm. When I open up Threads, I often come across two-day old posts ...

For a long time, I raged against the algorithm. "My phone is listening to me," I whispered into the unheeding darkness when an advert popped up for a thing I'd only ever mentioned in passing. 'Is my ...

We all know that ants are amazing biological creations, but it was only recently that researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave in a way that is not ...

Dijkstra's algorithm has long been the quickest way of finding the shortest possible paths in a network, but researchers have ...

This Safer Internet Day, WebWise are inviting parents, educators, schools, and young people to consider how alogrithms and influencers shape young lives. The annual day works as a reminder to empower ...