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Tech Times reports (alternate link) that Facebook has sacked the editors responsible for the site's "Trending Topics." According to the Facebook blog, the section is to be produced by "[a] more algorithmically driven process."
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"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 1) by J_Darnley on Monday August 29 2016, @02:26AM
An algorithm without the data and the rest of the software is meaningless. You can't know that they're using what they say they're using when it is just other people's computers (i.e the cloud).