The Internet revolution has brought extraordinary benefits and fuelled rapid innovation. Yet alongside this progress came the rise of social media, a defining pillar of Web 2.0. This new era ...

The mere presence of a smartphone requires so much cognitive power to resist its temptations, it reduces the cognitive capacity available for other things. I can't even imagine trying to focus on Math ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

It’s been almost two years since the province announced personal digital device restrictions in Schools to much fanfare and the collective relief of everyone familiar with Jonathan Haidt’s book The ...

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting? Based on our evaluation of all models from both classes ever used in ...

What a dusty database, a clunky mainframe, and modern AI all have in common. Through the mid-20th century, investing was more folklore than fact. People swapped stories of booms and busts, but no one ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

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 ...

Abstract: Evolutionary reinforcement learning (ERL), which integrates the evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and reinforcement learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable performance ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WDRB) – ACC Basketball Media Day used to be the land of the giants. Roy Williams posting up Rick Bozich in a corner to talk about a dadgum column from six months earlier (he was a ...