Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

OTTAWA — A ban on social media for children would need oversight and monitoring of the tech industry in order to work, online safety advocate Carol Todd told members of Parliament Tuesday.

Amazon is renowned for its nearly infinite selection of goods, but the scale of its operations means that faulty products may slip through the cracks.

Data-driven AI systems increasingly influence our choices, raising concerns about autonomy, fairness, and accountability. Achieving algorithmic autonomy requires new infrastructures, motivation ...

Cannabis is now entering a similar inflection point, where algorithms may shape what gets grown, how it’s sold, and who wins in a rapidly growing industry.

AI offers great benefits to retailers, but using personal data to set individualized prices, called surveillance pricing, faces growing regulatory backlash.

Another key change over this timeframe was Instagram’s decision in 2019 to hide “likes” on posts. The thinking behind this decision was to try to reduce the pressure on account owners to make content ...

Google rolled out a brand new experimental AI tool last Thursday called Project Genie. By Friday, video game stocks were ...

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla ...

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...