People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Can a dose of old-fashioned matchmaking sell a destination? Singapore’s tourism board is betting it might, inviting US-based singles to be paired by “aunties” for a chance to win a four-night trip in ...

Excitement around AI has driven huge stock market gains over the past few years, but there’s growing worry that the good times may not last. Some investors worry we could be nearing an AI crash ...

Katharine Jarmul keynotes on common myths around privacy and security in AI and explores what the realities are, covering design patterns that help build more secure, more private AI systems.

You know how sometimes you fall down an internet rabbit hole and end up somewhere totally nonsensical? That’s basically where ...

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Genome assembly algorithms are sets of well defined procedures for reconstructing DNA sequences from large numbers of shorter DNA sequence fragments. Fragments are aligned against one another and ...

Western society is, we're told, an increasingly overweight one. Depending on how we define 'overweight', it seems that between 30% and 50% of American adults are overweight. The situation isn't much ...

About 4 hours ago (3PM Boston time) the FSF doubled down on something that we noticed (then other sites cited us for) back in January. The FSF, after years of not mentioning the talks of its founder, ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and ...