Researchers have designed an algorithm that can intercept a man-in-the-middle (MitM) cyberattack on an unmanned military robot and shut it down in seconds. The algorithm, tested in real time, achieved ...

With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them. Reading time 5 minutes An apparent ...

Case in point: Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm that can find predictive patterns in unfamiliar data sets. To test its efficacy, they enrolled a computer ...

A possible algorithm that could allow Twitter to more effectively crack down on neo-Nazi and white-supremacist content could report and suspend accounts of Republican politicians, Motherboard, Vice's ...

Google’s recent algorithm tweaks impacted nearly 12% of the search engine’s queries. It was a “big algorithmic improvement to our ranking,” wrote Google’s search quality leader Matt Cutts, designed to ...

At dusk on April 7, one of the worst chemical attacks in Syrian history hit the city of Douma in eastern Ghouta, killing more than 70 people. Minutes later, video reports began to appear on YouTube.

The digital publisher LittleThings is shutting down. The company, like some other media companies, had quickly amassed a big following on Facebook. But Facebook's recent algorithm tweak throttled its ...

Google’s recent algorithm updates are reportedly reducing traffic to piracy websites, according to an analysis of year-over-year data. TorrentFreak, with help from piracy tracking company MUSO, ...

For humans, identifying items in a scene — whether that’s an avocado or an Aventador, a pile of mashed potatoes or an alien mothership — is as simple as looking at them. But for artificial ...

Two musician-programmers have teamed up to create an algorithm to generate every possible music melody in order to stop copyright lawsuits. Credit: Getty Images/EyeEm It’s become a regular occurence ...