Four years ago, when I was a college freshman, a dear friend and I agreed to delete TikTok from our phones for two weeks to see what might happen. I never downloaded the app again. It took those two ...

A religious fervor surrounds our relationship with technology. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Joseph Bernstein Hark! A sign of the End Times. No, not the Four Horsemen, nor ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

According to God of Prompt on Twitter, DeepMind has published groundbreaking research in Nature led by David Silver, introducing an AI meta-learning system capable of autonomously discovering entirely ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

From prayer to propaganda, about a dozen anti-government Christian nationalist militias are using popular online platforms like Instagram to recruit young men through fitness reels, tactical gear and ...

Algorithms increasingly predict human behavior, raising questions about free will and self-fulfilling prophecies. Judge to Trump lawyers trying to move hush money appeal to federal court: 'You sought ...