Mother of B.C. teen who died calls out social media algorithms for pushing self-harm

The mother of a 13-year-old girl from British Columbia who died after her family says social media repeatedly pushed harmful ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Contrastive Machine Learning to Quantify Hypertensive Multiorgan Damage and Identify New Disease Phenotypes: A Multinational Multimodal Study

BACKGROUND: Hypertension induces structural and functional damage in multiple organs. Evidence of subclinical damage ...
The Independent

LadBible owner’s profits plunge as social media algorithm changes hit web traffic

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...
The Independent

China’s new ‘kill them all’ algorithm lets AI take over drone targeting

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
WBEZ

Chicago-area bookstores are set to host their biggest celebration yet for Independent Bookstore Day

Despite pressure from competitors like Barnes & Noble and Amazon, Chicago’s indie bookstores are preparing for the biggest Indie Bookstore Day yet. Book lovers will have the chance to explore local ...
GitHub

DynWMIS — Dynamic Maximum (Weight) Independent Set

A fully dynamic algorithm for the NP-complete maximum weight and maximum cardinality independent set problem. We introduce optimal neighborhood exploration, a novel local search technique that creates ...
Psychology Today

7 Signs You're an Independent Thinker

Many of us would like to see ourselves as independent thinkers, capable of being reflective, intellectually curious, and aware. This post aims to help you see your strengths and areas where you could ...
Times Union

Commentary: New York must set stronger limits on algorithmic pricing

AI algorithms use information about you to decide how much you'll pay for items you need. It's unfair, and the Legislature must act. Credit: Getty Images. Across our economy, powerful companies are ...
Computer Weekly

Elon Musk set to open source new X algorithm

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Twitter reworking billionaire Elon Musk has stated that he will open up a new algorithm related to operations on ...
Al-Monitor

From oil to algorithms: The Gulf’s AI moment

AL-MONITOR is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
Microsoft

Sublinear Metric Steiner Forest via Maximal Independent Set

In this work we consider the Metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time model. Given a set V of n points in a metric space where distances are provided by means of query access to an n×n ...