In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new area code will soon be implemented for the Northern and Central Mississippi counties. The Mississippi Public Service Commission approved on June 13 of 2024, the new area code to ...

Have you been harmed by a social media algorithm? If so, U.S. Sen. John Curtis wants to let you sue. The Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced Tuesday by Curtis and co-sponsored by Arizona Democrat ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms. A new bill would hold ...

(CNN) — Emma Stone’s algorithm is playing up again. The two-time Academy Award winner reported in May that she was being fed a load of “crazy sh*t” online since researching her part as a woman swept ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

If you’re a book lover, the algorithm knows what you’ll read before you do. Open TikTok and within minutes you’re drowning in “dark academia” recommendations, literary fiction round-ups, and ...