How Facebook ruined your Twitter feed
Their feed wasn’t broke, but Twitter fixed it anyway.
On Aug 25, 2014 by S.E. Smith
Would you let an algorithm shop for you?
Online shopping, evolved.
On Aug 16, 2014 by [email protected]
These women on OkCupid don’t know they’re flirting with Cleverbot
There’s more to life than the Turing test.
On Aug 15, 2014 by Miles Klee
Why social media wants to manipulate you into getting lucky
“If you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site… That’s how websites work.”
On Jul 31, 2014 by Gillian Branstetter
OkCupid is playing with our love lives. Should we care?
OkCupid founder Christian Rudder revealed in a blog post that the company intentionally mismatched users as part of an experiment.
On Jul 29, 2014 by EJ Dickson
Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’: An interview with Gabriel Roth
Facebook thinks Roth and I should be friends. I interviewed him to find out why.
On Jun 25, 2014 by Miles Klee
Researchers are working on an algorithm to help prevent suicide
Code that scours social networks wants to help find the warning signs.
On May 25, 2014 by Kate Knibbs
Facebook spars with the media over who made the Internet suck
There are no winners here.
On May 23, 2014 by Miles Klee
This algorithm now sits on a venture capital firm’s board of directors
But does it want a corner office?
On May 16, 2014 by Miles Klee
Algorithm scours tweets to make headline writers obsolete
In other news, does anyone know if Google is hiring?
On Apr 29, 2014 by Aaron Sankin
Google mulls changing search algorithm to favor encryption
Google may change search formula to favor encrypted websites.
On Apr 15, 2014 by Tim Sampson
Computers are writing your news and you don’t even know it
Journalism Bot 2.0 will accept it’s robot Pulitzer now.
On Mar 20, 2014 by Aaron Sankin
Eterni.me will help you live forever—as a chatbot
There’s more than one kind of afterlife.
On Feb 5, 2014 by Miles Klee
Google ads could soon pay for your taxi rides
But probably still not to Brooklyn.
On Jan 24, 2014 by Miles Klee
Google Ads just don’t understand me
If Internet giants know everything about us, why can’t they figure out what we’ll buy?
On Jan 1, 2014 by Miles Klee
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