A study published last November in Science confirmed what many observers of digital politics have long suspected: feed ...

The deluge has many scientists turning to artificial intelligence for help. With minimal human input, AI systems such as artificial neural networks—computer-simulated networks of neurons that mimic ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last week, newly elected U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines when she said, as part ...

When Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, many people were confused by the purchase. By all definitions, Instagram seemed to be the antithesis of Facebook. Instagram was small, had little prospect of ...

UC Santa Cruz will join three other institutions to establish a transdisciplinary research institute bringing together mathematicians, statisticians, and theoretical computer scientists to develop the ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are gaining a lot of ground in healthcare, with everyone from tech giants like Google and Amazon to startup companies building systems for ...

In California, an algorithm now determines who gets bail. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Last month, California passed a bill ending the use of cash bail. Instead of waiting in jail or putting down a cash ...

Smart web identifies objects as friend, foe or terrain, meaning drone swarms can hunt even when communication is jammed and ...

The color palettes extracted from fine art paintings. The study of color is undergoing a revolution. Until now, color theory has been little more than a collection of ideas based loosely on science.

The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be “open source,” where cultural ...

Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation. Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this ...

Had Narrative Science—a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company's Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball toss from ...