Google Integrates Live Breaking News into AI Overviews via a Top Stories Carousel

Google is rolling out a new update to AI Overviews, adding a Top Stories carousel to seamlessly connect users with live ...
iTechify

Your Phone’s Google Maps Defaults to the Slowest Route—Here’s How to Fix It

Google Maps taking you the long way? Learn why the app defaults to slower routes and discover the hidden settings that will ...
Inc

Brands Are Ditching the Algorithm for the Group Chat

One month before Coachella, 818 Tequila offered a select group of customers the chance to win tickets to its exclusive festival-side event, 818 Outpost. The Kendall Jenner-founded brand, which ...
IEEE

A Fast Satellite Selection Algorithm: Beyond Four Satellites

Abstract: Satellite selection is an important executive logic to prevent unnecessary navigation signals in the first place for Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers with limited number of channels ...
Backstage

Decoding the YouTube Algorithm: How to Get Your Videos Seen

When Markiplier’s gaming streams or Emma Chamberlain’s coffee-soaked vlogs show up in your YouTube feed, it’s because these videos are algorithmically anointed. The YouTube algorithm delivers relevant ...
9to5google

Android 17 adds ‘location button’ for apps and more private ‘Approximate’ algorithm

Android 17 features a number of location privacy updates, with the latest introduced in Beta 3 being the “location button.” The new location button provides “simplified access for one time use,” with ...
Fast Company

The X algorithm really is trying to radicalize you—researchers just proved it

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...
New York Post

The best way to fix your TikTok algorithm when your FYP is out of control

If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile. TikTok, and many other platforms, use a “black-box” algorithm — an AI recommendation system that studies what captures ...
The Guardian

I traded Spotify with an MP3 player for a week. Life outside the algorithm was rough

No algorithm, no endless playlists, no podcasts on demand. Just a handful of albums, wired headphones and a lot of silence Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, ...
nature　asia

Social sciences: X’s algorithm may influence political attitudes (Nature)

Turning on the ‘For You’ algorithm on X (formerly Twitter) may shift users’ political opinions towards more conservative views, suggests research involving nearly 5,000 X users. These effects are ...
Mashable

Spotify's Prompted Playlist lets you micromanage your own algorithm

For years, Spotify's recommendation engine has felt like a mind reader. It quietly tracks what you play, skip, save, and replay, then serves up Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and an endless stream of ...