Huge amounts of clothing are simply discarded, and almost nothing goes to reuse or recycling. But with sensors and artificial ...

At Stony Brook University, researchers are developing an AI-assisted system to analyze and characterize contaminated items in recycling facilities.

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

In a year of wacky polls and debate, we have this morning probably the maddest result of all. Horizon research has either asked a leading or confusing question, or they have a misrepresentative group ...

Real Madrid defender Álvaro Carreras has seemingly confirmed reports he was slapped by Antonio Rüdiger during a heated altercation—but insisted that the incident has since been sorted out. Tensions ...

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

55-year-old spiritual leader beaten to death in Bangladesh, shrine set on fire Before Allu Arjun’s Raaka look, these Indian superstars turned completely unrecognisable onscreen Pakistani fighters in ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

In a hangar-like building in Louisville, Colorado, outside Denver, crumpled plastic bottles, cans and other scraps were strewn across a giant conveyor belt. But you know what they say about one man’s ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...