Melanie Watson, known for her role on Diff'rent Strokes, has died. She was 57. The actress' brother, Robert Watson, confirmed to TMZ that she was recently hospitalised and her condition deteriorated. ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

White individuals accounted for the vast majority of deaths (83.9%), with Black/African Americans representing 8.1% and Hispanic individuals 5.5%. Women were disproportionately affected, comprising 58 ...

For Amber Ekleberry, Director of Programming for the Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF), art is a family tradition. Ekleberry’s great-grandfather was the Mexican-American sculptor Octavio ...

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 ...

A total of 463 hospitals in the U.S. have a Clostridioides difficile infection rate of zero, based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. Measures are developed by the CDC and ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...

Today, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is excited to announce the release of RIFT, a tool designed to assist malware analysts automate the identification of attacker-written code within Rust ...

NBA playoff games are fun because teams all over the league break out special shirts for fans to wear in the home arena, turning ho-hum regular season crowds into one raucous, loud wall of color. But ...