Mr. Conte is the co-founder and chief executive of Patreon. The World Wide Web was introduced some three decades ago. Describing in 2019 the hopes that had been projected onto the internet at its ...

In 2025, the Instagram algorithm has become more advanced than ever, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to decide what content users see in their Feeds, Reels, Stories, Explore pages, ...

What Happened: This is pretty wild. There’s an AI-generated singer named Xania Monet who just became the first-ever artificial artist to land on multiple Billboard radio charts. We’re talking millions ...

We use heuristics to solve computationally difficult problems where optimal solutions are too expensive to deploy, hard to manage, or otherwise inefficient. Our prior work, MetaOpt, shows many of the ...

Managed accounts are launching in the US, making it easier to curate what your children can listen to. Managed accounts are launching in the US, making it easier to curate what your children can ...

Keep those guilty pleasures from ruining your recommendations. Keep those guilty pleasures from ruining your recommendations. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With ...

Instagram is experimenting with bringing tools to control your own algorithm to Threads, its X rival. The feature was uncovered while in development by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who ...

VeraCrypt is a free and open-source disk encryption software used to secure sensitive data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. It builds on the legacy of TrueCrypt, introducing enhanced security ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Every time you like or comment on something on social media, platforms learn about what you like and create a unique algorithm. No one knows you better than an ...