WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Detroit Tigers have had nothing but nightmares in September. Once the owners of a 15.5-game lead back in July, the Tigers went cold at the same time their rival Cleveland Guardians got red-hot.

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 ...

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.

The humanlike robot uses its two legs to walk up to a storage bin. Digit’s two arms reach for the bin, and its clawlike hands grip the sides. The robot gracefully lifts the storage box up so it’s ...

I’m not sure if they were still filled with merchandise selling for 5 or 10 cents by then, but I’m old enough to remember the local retailers from my childhood that we referred to as dime stores.

In brief: Amazon isn't the only company filling its warehouses with humanoid robots – much to the concern of real human workers. GXO Logistics, a global contract logistics company that provides supply ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Apr 1, 2025 at ...