Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

Research shows AI colonialism exploits Indonesian female gig workers, extracting labor, reinforcing inequality, and ...

Pioneering computer scientist who devised the Quicksort algorithm, ways of verifying programs and guards against hackers ...

Quantum technologies like quantum computers are built from quantum materials. These types of materials exhibit quantum properties when exposed to the right conditions. Curiously, engineers can also ...

From a chatbot that refuses to delete its peers to decades-old promises of frictionless, jobless offices that produced more work, the future keeps arriving with less revolution and more irony. Layer ...

In the first ever Q4Bio Challenge, research teams sought to demonstrate scalable quantum algorithms for healthcare, with ...

AI teams are often called fast-moving. The output can be fast, yet the route to reliable outcomes is slower, iterative and full of uncertainty. Agile ...

Researchers use a quantum inspired algorithm to simulate complex materials in seconds, opening faster paths to quantum ...

One driver for Uber and Lyft said he's rethinking which trips he takes because of gas prices. Long trips to remote places ...

In a rhythm as steady as a mbira pulse and as urgent as a township drumbeat, a quiet revolution is unfolding in Zimbabwe’s music industry — one powered not by amplifiers, but by algorithms.At its ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming filmmaking, raising a bigger question: could AI actors one day replace human ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world's ...