In an environment in which information is abundant but understanding is scarce, some books stand out because they fundamentally change the way we think about society, technology, history, and human ...

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), perception is no longer just social currency, but it is algorithmic capital, writes Aparna Kumar ...

What are algorithmic anchors? Know how these mathematical systems adjust token supply to provide stability and reduce volatility in the crypto market.

Economic reality comes for us all in the end—yes, even China’s Communist Party. So it is that officials this week reduced their economic growth-target for the coming year to the lowest level since ...

Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

Every day, algorithms make consequential decisions about millions of people's lives—who gets approved for a mortgage, who is called back for a job interview, who receives priority care in a hospital ...

The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape. By Sophie Stuber ...

In recent months, fans of Burger King appear to have fallen out of love with the chain’s signature sandwich, the Whopper. Social media has been full of complaints about the quality of ingredients and ...

Artificial intelligence is starting to change the way people work, find information and even form social relationships. Yet very little has changed about the devices people often use to access AI: ...

Abstract: The change-making problem is to represent a given value with the fewest coins under a given coin system. As a variation of the knapsack problem, it is known to be NP-hard. Nevertheless, ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...