Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

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After years of drama over TikTok’s future in the United States, there’s finally a resolution. Probably. Here’s what we know, and what we don’t know yet, about how a new American TikTok would work.

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

Ten years have passed since Google introduced the Penguin algorithm and took a stronger stance on manipulative link-building practices. The algorithm has had a number of updates and has become a ...

Google recently published a research paper on a new algorithm called SMITH that it claims outperforms BERT for understanding long queries and long documents. In particular, what makes this new model ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...