AI algorithms, trained on historical data reflecting men's sports dominance, may be gatekeeping sports content on social ...

Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming ...

Early misinformation can become the foundation for all future AI understanding, making prompt action essential.

Last week, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi’s remarkably swift media rehabilitation, and the response surprised me. That column argued that modern media rewards spectacle over substance, but it also hinted ...

I have a somewhat obscure bug that happens in openrouteservice: GIScience/openrouteservice#1897 I observe infinite loops in that application from time to time. I was not yet able to find an actual ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

Breakdown of the working principle. Humans are naturally confident in using time to model events, and in graph problems, each edge has a weight. As inspired by JavaScript's event loop, this weight can ...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...

Just months since Election Day, some are already looking to the next contest. It's been less than six months since the 2024 presidential election, but for some Democrats and Republicans, it's not too ...

Abstract: The control of pneumatic soft robotics is challenging due to nonlinearites arising from many factors including pneumatic system components and material properties of the soft actuator.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...