Your brain can outperform just about any computer out there. So, how come it needs barely any energy to do so?

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 introduces "Adaptive Thinking" and a "Compaction API" to solve context rot in long-running agents. The model supports a 1M token context window with 76% multi-needle ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

James Holland, the Texas Ranger who helped crack "the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history," is breaking his silence on how he finally got the murderer to confess. Samuel Little was interviewed ...

A motion control strategy based on multi-source heterogeneous motion information fusion and motion decoupling parallel washout algorithm (WA) is proposed for the control of a rehabilitation robot ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

Ben Khalesi writes about where artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and everyday technology intersect for Android Police. With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak ...

Directed by Emily Turner and written by Turner with Jinx Godfrey, the Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers draws on extensive interviews with and footage of Aileen Wuornos herself ...

The USB port is something most of us take for granted. You plug in a phone, keyboard, or one of the many useful USB gadgets out there, and it just works. But not too long ago, this was basically ...