TL;DR: Elon Musk says the algorithm that determines what appears in each user's X feed will be made public within a week – a move he claims will bring transparency to the platform's inner workings.

One of the most popular local announcers in the NFL has been out of action this season as long-time Bay Area voice Greg Papa has stepped down from his longtime role as the voice of the San Francisco ...

Can Greg Papa go from the bubble to the booth? The Bay Area broadcast icon is hopeful of resuming his role as radio voice of the 49ers for the last two games of the regular season as he recovers from ...

Jim Gaffigan turned his new interest into a comedy special. The 59-year-old comedian's latest comedy set, "Live from Old Forester: The Bourbon Set," features 40 minutes of jokes about whiskey culture ...

Two decades after redefining viral creativity, Ok Go’s frontman reflects on DIY spectacle, analogue magic and resisting Tiktok-era metrics. Few artists have shaped the language of the modern music ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.