Forget the apps and algorithms. To find love, maybe just go to a 166-year-old bar

PHILADELPHIA -- McGillin’s Olde Ale House, the 166-year-old pub in Center City long owned by the same family, has determined ...

Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest ...

Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE

Generally speaking, conservative Christian lifestyle influencers are attractive, married women with kids. On Instagram, they ...

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.
inews.co.uk

Four simple tricks to take back control of your Netflix algorithm

Everything you watch – whether it’s on for eight episodes or five minutes – is counted and logged by Netflix, which will affect your algorithm. So, if you share your account with your husband who laps ...
Utrecht University

COA uses algorithm to place status holders across the country: “Instead of a win-win, everyone loses”

The pilot with algorithm GeoMatch risks discrimination, researchers and journalists warn. “Everyone loses: the refugee, the municipality, and the community.” ...

Finding each other through the algorithm: one year as a ‘local’ on China’s social media

Screenshots of different American netizens sharing their life moments on Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media platform. Editor's Note: Many American users who initially joined Xiao ...
Bizcommunity

#BizTrends2026 | Special Effects Media’s Jarryd Terblanche: Narrative voice is becoming the differentiator

Jarryd Terblanche, conceptual copywriter at Special Effects Media, looks at how narrative voice will cut through digital marketing’s content saturation in ...
Yahoo Finance

Finding each other through the algorithm: one year as a 'local' on China's social media: Global Times

BEIJING, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Many American users who initially joined Xiaohongshu, a Chinese app for sharing daily life, a year ago following a looming TikTok ban - often referred to as ...

Hitting the social media jackpot is harder than ever — and it's changing the creator economy

TikTok dances won't make you an A-list celebrity anymore. But niche content creators make substantial incomes and are having ...
Psychology Today

The Mind’s Search for Meaning

Apophenia is the mind’s tendency to find meaning in randomness. It shapes creativity, emotion, and misunderstanding, ...

I studied 10 years of Instagram posts. Here’s how social media has changed

Instagram is one of Australia’s most popular social media platforms. Almost two in three Aussies have an account. Ushering in 2026 and what he calls “synthetic everything” on our feeds, Head of ...