AI can write songs, but still has a way to go before matching the creativity of tunes made by people, according to Carnegie Mellon University research.

Researchers demonstrate that misleading text in the real-world environment can hijack the decision-making of embodied AI systems without hacking their software. Self-driving cars, autonomous robots ...

The data inputs that enable modern search and recommendation systems were thought to be secure, but an algorithm developed by Cornell Tech researchers successfully teased out names, medical diagnoses ...

Microsoft is retiring a feature that allowed you to send your documents to Kindle straight from Microsoft Word. In an update to the support document, Microsoft confirmed that it's removing the option ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Personal recommendations continue to drive book discovery more than algorithms, social media, and other digital tools, according to the 2026 State of Reading Report released today by Everand and Fable ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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.

DEFINITION: A process or set of mathematical instructions to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. ETYMOLOGY: Comes from French algorithme, ...