Sounding off: Microsoft has often talked about turning Windows into an agentic OS, despite serious reservations from many quarters. Most Windows users are unhappy with the idea of AI taking greater ...

While artificial intelligence (AI)-powered screening has been validated for diabetic retinopathy, applying the technology to glaucoma has proved more challenging because glaucoma is not one disease. A ...

The TikTok algorithm, built by its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., is what has made the app so popular with half of America. The enormously powerful technology can master the intricacies of our ...

Abstract: In this work, to address the fixed step-size problem of the widely linear complex-valued affine projection algorithm (WL-CAPA), we propose a sliding-window step-size (SWSS) selection scheme, ...

The doomer narrative of an all-powerful AI is gaining ground in the halls of power. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The AI learns it is about to be switched off and goes rogue, disobeying ...

It’s easy to take safe drinking water for granted. In most developed countries, access to safe water takes a simple flip of a kitchen tap or a run to the grocery store. But over two billion people ...

A new kind of window may soon help solve one of the world’s biggest problems—how to get clean drinking water to people who don’t have it. Right now, over 2.2 billion people around the world live ...

For many, fitness trackers have become indispensable tools for monitoring how many calories they've burned in a day. But for those living with obesity, who are known to exhibit differences in walking ...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...