Jason Barnard is a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, keynote speaker and award-winning innovator. He’s the CEO & founder of Kalicube. Here’s something no one tells you when you’re building a ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...

Most of us spend a lot of time on social media. Scrolling when we wake up. Scrolling again just before bed. And at some point, almost everyone asks the same question. Why doesn’t my feed feel anything ...

Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players, the branding of sound has evolved from broad genres like rock and hip-hop to “paranormal dark cabaret afternoon” and “synth space,” ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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.