"Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" child actor Floyd Roger Myers Jr. died Wednesday at the age of 42, his family announced. The actor’s sister, Tyree Trice, confirmed his death on a GoFundMe page set up to ...

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 ...

When I arrived in Minneapolis, the frost had just lifted, and gray clouds hung low over the horizon. I had come to make a pilgrimage to George Floyd Square, where the revolution of 2020 began. It has ...

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 ...

During the summer of 2020, when protests convulsed cities around the world, one of the most striking scenes took place outside a library in a wealthy Maryland suburb. Eight days after George Floyd was ...

Kirk made the statement in reference to Floyd's alleged criminal history and the circumstances surrounding his death. Kirk's exact words were: "I am also going to offer some context and some nuance ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was ...

I’m an attorney, a political commentator, and an immigrant who came to America as an international student in 2008, when I was just 14 years old. In Trump’s America, all of these basic facts about my ...

The upheaval in Golden Valley is just one example of the way Floyd’s murder shook thousands of police agencies nationwide. Officer Cheeka Vang doesn’t know what to expect when he begins his shift each ...

Five years ago, on May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest. Although ample evidence showed that Chauvin and police misconduct ...

Five years ago today, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Video of the event sent shockwaves around the world and triggered an American reckoning with racial justice and police use of force ...