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Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced a new feature called Your Algorithm that lets users choose topics to see or hide in their feed. The tool is buried in Content preferences under settings. Mosseri called it the start of something bigger, with more features like mood and vibe settings coming.

Instagram expanded its Your Algorithm feature to the main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see. The company is also working to support requests for people, moods, and more. The feature gives users more control over their feed content.

Instagram launched Your Algorithm, letting users see and change the topics the algorithm shows on the main feed. The feature currently surfaces topics, with plans to support requests for people, moods, and content types. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said this gives users more agency over recommendations.

Researchers combined osprey hunting behavior with quantum computing concepts to improve machine translation accuracy. The algorithm specifically enhances translation of long sentences and technical texts between Chinese and English, as published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology.
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