Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm to Bury Articles with Clickbait Titles

Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm to Bury Articles with Clickbait Titles

Facebook's new algorithm will hide any clickbait spam from less reputable news sources that engage in this practice

Scientists Find New Way to Generate Random Numbers, Encryption Could Get a Boost

Scientists Find New Way to Generate Random Numbers, Encryption Could Get a Boost

University of Texas researchers find a way to merge two low-quality sources of random numbers into high-quality output

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 21st, 2015
Mozilla Outlines Plan to Phase Out SHA-1 Certificates, As 1 Million Sites Still Employ Them

Mozilla Outlines Plan to Phase Out SHA-1 Certificates, As 1 Million Sites Still Employ Them

SHA-1 usage is going down, but not fast enough

SHA1 Algorithm Could Become Useless by the End of the Year

SHA1 Algorithm Could Become Useless by the End of the Year

The Shappening project just broke SHA1 encryption

  • Photo
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 23rd, 2015
MIT Researchers Develop a Camera That Never Overexposes Images

MIT Researchers Develop a Camera That Never Overexposes Images

Go away, multi-shot HDR photography, nobody liked you anyway

  • Photo
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 7th, 2015
New Google and MIT Algorithm Can Remove Obstructions and Reflections from Photos

New Google and MIT Algorithm Can Remove Obstructions and Reflections from Photos

The algorithm is still in experimental stage for now

Experimental Facebook Algorithm Can Recognize People Even with Their Faces Covered

Experimental Facebook Algorithm Can Recognize People Even with Their Faces Covered

Facebook's algorithm delivers an accuracy rate of 83%

Facebook Now Takes into Account the Time You Spend Reading Stories on the Timeline

Facebook Now Takes into Account the Time You Spend Reading Stories on the Timeline

Pausing from scrolling through your timeline to read a news story will count for ranking future updates

​Facebook Blames Users for the Lack of Diversity in Their Feed

​Facebook Blames Users for the Lack of Diversity in Their Feed

Your friends dictate what you see in your feed

Facebook Fiddles with News Feed to Display Less Promotional Page Posts

Facebook Fiddles with News Feed to Display Less Promotional Page Posts

Starting next year, the News Feed is going to look a little different, the company announces, offering people a heads-up

Facebook Gives You More Options to Clean Your News Feed

Facebook Gives You More Options to Clean Your News Feed

You have more ways to keep things interesting on Facebook

Google's New Penguin Algorithm Update Is Already Being Rolled Out

Google's New Penguin Algorithm Update Is Already Being Rolled Out

Google's new update seeks to kill even more spam

Google Starts Displaying Blogs, Reddit Posts in the "In the News" Box

Google Starts Displaying Blogs, Reddit Posts in the "In the News" Box

Google is diversifying its "In the News" offering

Google to Roll Out Revamped Penguin Algorithm Next Week

Google to Roll Out Revamped Penguin Algorithm Next Week

Google Penguin is getting a massive update that Google has been working on for the past year, the company said

Germany Wants Google to Reveal Its Search Engine Algorithm <em>FT</em>

Germany Wants Google to Reveal Its Search Engine Algorithm FT

Google's search engine is causing more troubles in Europe

Facebook to Page Owners: Start Sharing Stories in Link Format

Facebook to Page Owners: Start Sharing Stories in Link Format

In this way, people will know if the content is actually worth reading

Google Rolls Out PayDay Loan 3.0 to Hunt Spammy Queries

Google Rolls Out PayDay Loan 3.0 to Hunt Spammy Queries

Less than a month since the last update, PayDay is getting another one

 
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