Be careful what you wish for. This idea, often explored in fiction, lies at the center of “Obsession,” Focus Features‘ new horror film from writer/director/editor Curry Barker. The movie follows Bear ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When robots reach the point of being just as good as, or even better than, humans at work in a couple of years, the only thing ...

The golden years are not golden: Boomers are hoarding most of America’s wealth and power because they’re terrified of outliving their money America’s largest wine producer announces closure, layoffs ...

Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent ...

We don’t usually speculate on the true identity of the hackers behind these projects, but when [TN666]’s accoustic drone-detector crossed our desk with the name “Batear”, we couldn’t help but wonder– ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. If you never have to explain yourself, you can’t really ever be wrong. In recent decades, few things have been ...

If you’re racing to catch up on the Oscar-nominated films before the Academy Awards next week, then you should know that It Was Just an Accident—an Iranian film nominated for Best International ...

With a growing pile of documents linking deceased predator pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to a circle of academic superstars, the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture ...

A new study published today 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 ...

Two years. That's the amount of time human beings have before artificial intelligence becomes better thinkers and strategists than us, according to Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, a decentralized ...