Dr Gulzar Singh explains how algorithmic decision-making in banks has outpaced the institutional structures designed to govern accountability, oversight, and escalation ...

Edelman calls the condition “insularity.” Clegg calls it human. Clegg rejected the idea that insularity is a novel digital pathology. In his view, it’s a rational response to prolonged insecurity.

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In 14 instances since August, Denver sent out emergency alerts that directed people to social media platforms for more information — but nothing was posted. Bitter cold continues as major winter storm ...

I’ve suffered with hearing problems in one ear for years. I’ve found that holding my nose and blowing improves the issue temporarily. So too does the steam in the shower. What could be the problem?

Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...

One of the odder moments in Donald Trump’s big Oval Office “affordability” speech on December 17 was toward the end, when he asserted that mass deportation of immigrants would greatly improve the ...

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 ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

In a recent column, I wrote, “‘Vote for us, we hate Trump,’ is hardly a winning strategy for Democrats.” I was wrong. It turns out, peddling hate wins elections. Much has been made of last week’s ...

A group of mission-driven bankers is feeding information into generative AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude on Monday, in hopes of retraining the public-facing models to better understand what ...

Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...