“I hear a lot that algorithms are powerful technologies, and the companies are monopolies, and we are helpless against them, and Google is the only option,” says Kartik Hosanagar, a professor of ...

Can I level with you? I’m not always sure I know what people are talking about when they say algorithm? You’re not alone: Honestly, I haven’t always been sure what I meant when I said it either. But ...

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Social media algorithms train your brain by reinforcing and radicalizing what you like and love. Credit: MASHABLE COMPOSITE: ISTOCK / JOLYGON / GETTY PLUS Mashable's series Algorithms explores the ...