Part 2, Digital Inequality Series: Under what conditions can artificial intelligence benefit all of society vs. just a few people? Kalinda Ukanwa, a quantitative marketing scholar at the University of ...

The day starts well before most people are even aware of it. In the morning, your smartphone wakes you seven minutes before iOS’ sleep tracking algorithm determines your wake-up time, and then plays a ...

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — We are a technology-obsessed culture. As futurist Ray Kurzweil wrote in his essay, “The Law of Accelerating Returns”: “An analysis of the history of technology shows that ...

Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen ...

Something is happening in the design of AI models right now that -- unless it's fixed soon -- may have disastrous consequences for us humans, according to a recent experiment by an inter-university ...

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...