If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...

Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy money. So confirms a pioneering study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Pope Leo XIV is on the side of the angels when it comes to matters of cinema. Last Saturday, after he gathered some of the film world’s luminaries at the Vatican, the pontiff delivered one of the most ...

More than half of the world’s content creators wake up exhausted before they even start working. The constant grind of producing content, responding to comments, and chasing algorithm changes has ...

St. Joseph artist MacKenna Hanson is creating a new series of art inspired by content and its societal impact. The project started by reflecting on how TikTok's algorithms made the artist feel. Now it ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — At Purdue University, character isn’t just a trait — it’s currency. So much so that the NCAA basketball powerhouse’s coach, Matt Painter, has implemented a sophisticated ...

What Happened: This is pretty wild. There’s an AI-generated singer named Xania Monet who just became the first-ever artificial artist to land on multiple Billboard radio charts. We’re talking millions ...

Loneliness has become a defining challenge of our time. One in three adult Americans says they have experienced loneliness at least once a week over the past year. With the evolution of online ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

Popular Hardware Google claims it has made a 'major breakthrough' in quantum computing with an algorithm 13,000X faster than a traditional equivalent, although not everyone is convinced News By Andy ...