If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg. An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KGUN) — Senator Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) introduced landmark legislation Tuesday aimed squarely at what he calls “surveillance pricing,” a practice in which companies use consumers’ ...
Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy money. So confirms a pioneering study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., listens to testimony during a Sept. 20, 2023, Senate Environment and ...
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.
Pope Leo XIV is on the side of the angels when it comes to matters of cinema. Last Saturday, after he gathered some of the film world’s luminaries at the Vatican, the pontiff delivered one of the most ...
More than half of the world’s content creators wake up exhausted before they even start working. The constant grind of producing content, responding to comments, and chasing algorithm changes has ...
Social media algorithms are used to show viewers the content they want to see. They track people’s engagement to see what they like or dislike and tailor their feeds to their interests. These ...
What Happened: This is pretty wild. There’s an AI-generated singer named Xania Monet who just became the first-ever artificial artist to land on multiple Billboard radio charts. We’re talking millions ...
St. Joseph artist MacKenna Hanson is creating a new series of art inspired by content and its societal impact. The project started by reflecting on how TikTok's algorithms made the artist feel. Now it ...