WhatsApp AI stickers on Android and iOS: How to create, save favourites, and manage your custom stickers

WhatsApp is rolling out an AI-powered sticker feature, allowing users to generate custom stickers from text descriptions.
The American Prospect

Prices in the Machine

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...
balkaninsight

TikTokcracy: When Algorithms Manufacture Support and Decide Elections

A study of recent electoral cycles in Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo shows what can happen when algorithms are allowed to hack democracy. This new ‘TikTokcracy’ must not go unchallenged. In December ...
The Verge

The algorithm failed music

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...
KSL

Sen. Curtis challenges Google executives on addictive algorithms that could radicalize users

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Curtis is challenging major tech companies to alter their algorithm systems, accusing platforms of recommending content that could lead to radicalized behavior. During a hearing ...
Wired

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
IEEE

Design of a Generic Fault Diagnosis Model for Electrical Distribution Networks Using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) Algorithm

Abstract: This article presents the design and implementation of a generic model for fault diagnosis in electrical distribution networks, based on the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm. The ...
SciELO

Precision crack analysis in concrete structures using CNN, SVM, and KNN: a machine learning approach

Cracks in structures are discontinuities that occur due to stress, material degradation, or design flaws, compromising structural integrity. Detecting and analyzing cracks is crucial for assessing ...
New York Post

Idaho small business receives outpouring of support for tribute to Charlie Kirk: ‘We refuse to allow his voice to go silent’

Americans have been gathering nationwide to mourn the death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as a small business in Idaho goes out of its way — in its own way — to honor his legacy.
IEEE

Research on Prediction Model Based on Hybrid Algorithm of PSO-SVM Kernel Function

Abstract: To solve the problem of low prediction accuracy of SVM algorithm, this paper proposes a prediction model research method based on PSO-SVM kernel function hybrid algorithm, designs global and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Hardware Technologies And Algorithms for Vector Symbolic Architectures (Purdue Univ., Georgia Tech)

A new technical paper titled “Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration” was published by researchers at Purdue University and ...