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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 ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Today’s web runs on monetising human attention, through search ads and social feeds. Alphabet and Meta, among the biggest ...

In January this year, an announcement from China rocked the world of artificial intelligence. The firm DeepSeek released its ...

In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.

This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain and fresh clues about why hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago. Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ...

A throat bone settles it - Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a ...

Applicants for fall 2026 admission to the master’s and PhD programs in computer science must complete the following steps no later than 10 p.m. MST on Dec. 15, 2025. All documents, including Letters ...