The classic thought experiment known as the “trolley problem” asks: Should you pull a lever to divert a runaway trolley...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow throughout the brain, has been used over the past...
University of Liverpool computer scientists have solved a long-standing algorithmic puzzle to speed up a core building block of Python,...
Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital...
Before a machine-learning model can complete a task, such as identifying cancer in medical images, the model must be trained....
A new tool could help make code reading, navigating and editing more accessible and efficient for blind and low-vision computer...
The security of data relies on the use of proper, well-executed cryptography—the science and art of constructing algorithms that make...
More salad and apples, less McDonald’s and KFC. Those are just a couple of the dietary changes that people appeared...
University of Virginia cognitive scientist Per Sederberg has a fun experiment you can try at home. Take out your smartphone...
Moore’s Law needs a hug. The days of stuffing transistors on little silicon computer chips are numbered, and their life...
Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read...
People are less morally outraged when gender discrimination occurs because of an algorithm rather than direct human involvement, according to...
