This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

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 ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

Abstract: Quantum computing, in the last few years, has made tremendous gains both scientifically and commercially. The recent announcements by Google and Microsoft ...

If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine-learning model might think it is a new data point. In computer science ...

ABSTRACT: Accurate prediction of malaria incidence is indispensable in helping policy makers and decision makers intervene before the onset of an outbreak and potentially save lives. Various ...

Powerful and practical machine learning tools for machine vision applications are already available to everyone, even if you’re not a data scientist. It might come as a bit of a surprise, but machine ...

Abstract: Technical Debt (TD) refers to the long-term costs of suboptimal choices made for short-term gains. Algorithm Debt (AD), a type of TD, refers to the sub-optimal implementation of an algorithm ...

William Parks is a Game Rant editor who specializes in puzzle games, indie releases, Nintendo titles, and completion-focused guide coverage. Since joining Game Rant in 2019, he has written and edited ...