This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Earlier this year, China's cyberspace regulator set out rules ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: This is your Tech News Briefing for Wednesday, September 7th. I'm Zoe ...

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s top internet watchdog, on Friday published a 30-point draft guideline which contained proposals forbidding companies from deploying algorithms ...

Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and research scientist Jonathan Suen found that adjustment algorithms—the same ...

China has issued draft guidelines on regulating the algorithms used by internet service providers to make recommendations to users, part of efforts to protect the privacy and data security of users, ...

Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say. Fiber optic cables used for cable television, ...

David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Spending hours on endless ...

For the first time, the Supreme Court is considering its opinion on the brief but powerful “26 words that created the internet.” Enacted in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ...

[Credit: Stanford Engineering News] 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 ...

Paul Mescal said that he has to "quit the internet." In the latest episode of "Happy Sad Confused," Mescal said his algorithm has "too much" of him. Mescal rose to fame after his role in the 2020 ...