Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

Google released the December 2025 core update on December 11, 2025. This is Google's third core update of 2025, following March and June updates. The rollout may take up to three weeks to complete.

The new Instagram feature reveals what the algorithm thinks you like and lets you adjust it, reshaping how content gets recommended on Reels. Instagram launched Your Algorithm in the U.S. today, a ...

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.

The Seattle police and fire departments are searching for suspected arsonists connected to a string of fires set in and near the Central District and Mount Baker neighborhoods in the past week. The ...

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Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

Implement and demonstrate three fundamental string pattern matching algorithms — Rabin-Karp, Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP), and Z-Algorithm — widely used in text searching and interview questions. I would ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...