Today we are witnessing something almost unimaginable as recently as a decade ago: the mainstreaming of machine learning and artificial intelligence. All over the world, people use Alexa to assist ...

One of the reasons we don't yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under pressure. A system that can ...

Fans found a new “album,” allegedly by Taylor Swift, titled Silent Algorithms, surfacing on various music platforms, including Tidal Music and Spotify, on May 12. While it is not unusual for the pop ...

The finance industry is a prime use case for machine learning, thanks to the abundant data sets, access to capital and strong incentive for efficiency and predicting future outcomes. While rule-based ...

The next time someone mentions an "algorithm" in workaday chitchat—so, in T minus 17 seconds—ask if they have any idea what in the godforsaken digitized hell they're talking about. “Um, you know, ...

In 2019, the world fretted that algorithms now know us better than we know ourselves. No concept captures this better than surveillance capitalism, a term coined by American writer Shoshana Zuboff to ...

Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the algorithms that dictate what we watch, read and listen to. He argues that machine-guided curation... How social media algorithms 'flatten' our culture by ...

There’s skepticism that New Orleans’ system of almost all charter schools provides a model that can be imported wholesale to other states. But what about specific policies and lessons? In this part of ...

One of the ways that computers 'think' is by analyzing relationships within large sets of data. An international team has shown that quantum computers can do one such analysis faster than classical ...

Whether we take selfies to match our own perception of what we think we look like or trying to understand how others perceive us, there's no doubt that the self portrait is the defining photographic ...