What used to be innocent enough — checking social media to see what our friends were up to — has escalated into a battle of wills in which there can emerge only one victor: man or phone. Many of us ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

University of Westminster provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. If you ask an AI service like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to recommend a destination for your next summer holiday, it will ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

For a long time, American Airlines didn't have any direct credit card transfer partners, but this changed with the company's expanded partnership with Citi. But you don't need a Citi credit card or ...

Film and music stars peddle booze, beauty, and everything in between. But the hottest status symbol touted (and toted) by the modern-day it girl? A book. It all started with Oprah Winfrey, the OG of ...