ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — If you are on on Facebook, you may have seen a post that says you can use a trick to see more of what your friends post. These posts come around every few months ...

Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a ...

If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile. TikTok, and many other platforms, use a “black-box” algorithm — an AI recommendation system that studies what captures ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – These posts come around every few months. And people are still falling for it. It comes from a friend's account and claims you can reset Facebook's algorithm by holding your finger ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

What if the thermal noise that hinders the efficiency of both classical and quantum computers could, instead, be used as a ...

Solar storms around distant stars may be erasing alien radio signals before we ever hear them In A Nutshell Stellar winds and ...

Former prosecutor Nancy Grace, who has been following the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, is baffled about why the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie still remains missing after ...

The first rule of the Bay Area's arm wrestling clubs: Tell everyone.

The 2026 Academy Awards are on March 15 and, while the ceremony honoring the best in film of the last year might seem pretentious and stodgy, the Oscars are actually anything but. We’re so fortunate ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...