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We’ve built a machine that knows us better than we know ourselves. Every search, click, and hesitation writes a digital version of your soul. Now, scientists are hijacking that same system — not to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phasecraft is developing the algorithms that bridge the gap between today’s noisy quantum computers and tomorrow’s world-changing applications World-leading team is developing hardware-agnostic ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Herald-Dispatch newsroom was not involved in its creation. Do EMTs really need ACLS certification? It’s a common question, especially for those starting to ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.