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 ...

AI-powered Europe trip planners are transforming how travelers design multi-city itineraries, integrating train and flight optimization, crowd avoidance, and cultural pass options. New tools combine ...

Artificial intelligence is accelerating the design of microfluidic devices, replacing months of manual iteration with rapid, data-driven optimization. Techniques like Bayesian optimization and machine ...

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot and SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary discuss Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and their role in AI applications, the ...

Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I'll ...

Just when you thought the circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer interface (BCI) startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs, which defines itself as ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

📄 Please read the official article for more information about this open source software: Open source map matching with Markov decision processes: A new method and ...

Optimal Blue CEO Joe Tyrrell has responded to a class action lawsuit alleging mortgage price-fixing, calling the claims baseless and frivolous. The company, along with 26 major lenders, is accused of ...

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 ...