“How tall is President Obama?” Through algorithm updates like “ Hummingbird,” Google has evolved to recognize such questions and, increasingly, to answer them itself.

YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. The questions it answered ranged from how the algorithm for Shorts ...

Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data ...

The researchers found that Meta introduced a temporary, and more rigorous, algorithm during part of the study period that filtered out more misinformation than the standard algorithm.

Chris Piech, professor of computer science at Stanford University, answers the internet's burning questions about coding. Do you need to know math to be good at coding? How many computer languages ...

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.

The use of algorithms to filter and present information online is increasingly shaping our everyday experience of the real world, a study argues.