Named after the infamously high-pitched, hapless yet persistent character on "The Simpsons," this newish tool (released in ...

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld using probabilistic genotyping software program for DNA evidence in a ...

Since 2021, Korean researchers have been providing a simple software development framework to users with relatively limited ...

Since 2021, Korean researchers have been providing a simple software development framework to users with relatively limited ...

In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League documented 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024 — the highest in 46 years of ...

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Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

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.