As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...

In a world where our feeds decide what we see, think, and even believe, books still hold the power to surprise us in ways no algorithm can. Non-fiction does more than inform; it awakens. These books ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

Words like "rizz" and "skibidi" didn’t exist just a few years ago, but now they’re used and understood by millions of people. In his new book, Algospeak, linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic ...

There was a time when every reader's bookshelf had its own personality. People often discovered new books simply by talking to other fellow readers. Western books were hard to come by, and for people ...

Abstract: We propose a novel interactive e-book design method that uses multimedia reusable components and an e-book description language to implement e-book authoring tools, like a circuit design ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

Zoe Schiffer's new book "Extremely Hardcore" gives a play-by-play of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. In this excerpt, Schiffer describes the blowback from Musk over her reporting on him changing the ...

About a decade ago, the anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll — who’d spent years studying casino slot players — popularized a cycle of repeated engagement she called the “ludic loop.” Each time people ...