- Social Networking Related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 5th, 2016
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
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 19th, 2016
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
SHA-1 usage is going down, but not fast enough
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 8th, 2015
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
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
The algorithm is still in experimental stage for now
- Social Networking Related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 23rd, 2015
Experimental Facebook Algorithm Can Recognize People Even with Their Faces Covered
Facebook's algorithm delivers an accuracy rate of 83%
- Social Networking Related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 13th, 2015
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
- Social Networking Related
- By Andreea Murgu
- May 8th, 2015
Facebook Blames Users for the Lack of Diversity in Their Feed
Your friends dictate what you see in your feed
- Social Networking Related
- By Gabriela Vatu
- November 15th, 2014
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
- Social Networking Related
- By Gabriela Vatu
- November 8th, 2014
Facebook Gives You More Options to Clean Your News Feed
You have more ways to keep things interesting on Facebook
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 21st, 2014
Google's New Penguin Algorithm Update Is Already Being Rolled Out
Google's new update seeks to kill even more spam
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 7th, 2014
Google Starts Displaying Blogs, Reddit Posts in the "In the News" Box
Google is diversifying its "In the News" offering
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 3rd, 2014
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
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 16th, 2014
Germany Wants Google to Reveal Its Search Engine Algorithm FT
Google's search engine is causing more troubles in Europe
- Social Networking Related
- By Gabriela Vatu
- August 26th, 2014
Facebook to Page Owners: Start Sharing Stories in Link Format
In this way, people will know if the content is actually worth reading
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- June 13th, 2014
Google Rolls Out PayDay Loan 3.0 to Hunt Spammy Queries
Less than a month since the last update, PayDay is getting another one