New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute can help robots feel layers of cloth rather than relying on computer...
Have you ever noticed the faces in Facebook ads seem to match your gender, race or age? That isn’t an...
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more...
Social media are polarizing not because they isolate us with likeminded others, as often thought, but because they provide spaces...
After the May 2020 death of George Floyd, large demonstrations exploded across the United States. Though the killing spurred the...
A new study reveals how Facebook communities were already intertwined with groups opposing best-science guidance long before COVID-19 vaccines A...
We know that apps collect all sorts of data about us, and that makes us feel uncomfortable. In a new...
For nearly 37 years, she was known as Buckskin Girl—a young, anonymous murder victim found outside Dayton, Ohio, wearing a...
Cornell Tech researchers have developed a mechanism for preserving anonymity in encrypted messaging—which conceals message content but might not cloak...
It was all quite predictable, really. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, released the latest version of its groundbreaking AI chatbot in...
Fifteen years after its launch, a Google Maps feature that lets people explore faraway places as though standing right there...
Sharing news articles with friends and followers on social media can prompt people to think they know more about the...
