https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bMh59JQDo Time and again, research has shown that the machines we build reflect how we see the world, whether consciously or not. For artificial intelligence that reads text, that might mean associating the word "doctor" ... (more…)

Clearview AI's cofounder Hoan Ton-That claims his company has scraped billions of photos from the internet, including popular sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — all to help law enforcement solve crimes. But what does that mean for your privacy? (more…)

An international team of astronomers has performed a comprehensive spectroscopic and photometric study of a pulsating eclipsing binary star known as AI Hya. Results of the study, published January 11 on the arXiv pre-print server, deliver important insigh... (more…)

In the week of April 12-18, the top 10 search terms on Amazon.com were: toilet paper, face mask, hand sanitizer, paper towels, Lysol spray, Clorox wipes, mask, Lysol, masks for germ protection, and N95 mask. People weren’t just searching, they were buying... (more…)

The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. (more…)