It's think-or-swim time. AI may be our greatest evolutionary challenge since we came down from the trees. Meeting it requires ...

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We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots ...

Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

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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 ...

Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiatives. A problem arising in practice is that having ...

Letting AI churn out an endless supply of crappy code that humans then have to debug and maintain doesn’t move anybody’s business forward. There is a persistent, dangerous myth in software development ...

ONTARIO COUNTY, N.Y. – There’s a big power problem in Ontario County. There isn’t enough room on the electric grid to power future houses and businesses and the problem has local leaders furious and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Companies investing millions in generative AI may soon find themselves stalled—not by the technology’s limits, but by their people’s. As generative AI becomes more ubiquitous, a paradox has emerged: ...