Dick’s 1956 novella The Minority Report, in which three prophetic human “precogs” are hooked up to complicated machinery that reads their minds; they’re also yoked to a brutally efficient police ...

Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptography to "trick" an ...

The move will put the cloud-computing giant in closer competition with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Are we slipping into an era where the lowest common cognitive denominator dictates what we read, write, and believe? Or are ...

Kelsey McKinney’s book, You Didn’t Hear This From Me, whirls through some good examples of gossip in culture, but overstates its importance ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

The information gathered from “using the science” via what he described as the “same kind of thinking” as AI ... “We end up with an algorithm that can tell you kind of every postcode ...

The former OpenAI CTO started Thinking Machines Lab with thirty researchers and engineers from competitors like OpenAI, Meta, and Mistral. It’s worth noting that one-third of Thinking Machines ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal.

The fact that such books were largely absent — or pushed to the margins — at the fair is no coincidence. The event, much like the algorithmic structures that govern online engagement ...