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Objectives This review aimed to provide a pooled estimate of injury incidence and epidemiology in women’s ice hockey.Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted by searching PubMed ...

Ever wonder why your social media feed seems to “read your mind?” One minute, you’re watching a video about travel, and suddenly, your feed is filled with flight deals and hotel recommendations. It’s ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...

When tools like ChatGPT first launched, they weren’t even connected to the internet. No real-time knowledge, no live queries, just pretrained data with a cutoff point. Two years later, Perplexity, a ...

BEIJING, Dec ‌20 (Reuters) - The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short ‌video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the app's Chinese owner ByteDance ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kelley Cotter, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed ...