Instagram and Threads are limiting political content. This is terrible for democracy
Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps are “slowly” rolling out a change that will no longer…
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish…
A rare condition makes other people’s faces look distorted. Why a new case is important
If you’ve seen portraits painted by Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, you might not be…
Why Ontario school boards are suing social media platforms for causing an attention crisis
Four of Ontario’s largest school boards have brought a lawsuit against four of the biggest…
How long before quantum computers can benefit society? That’s Google’s US$5 million question
Google and the XPrize Foundation have launched a competition worth US$5 million (£4 million) to…
We built an AI tool to help set priorities for conservation in Madagascar: what we found
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from…
Algorithms that predict crime are watching – and judging us by the cards we’ve been dealt
Your money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal…
Americans increasingly using ChatGPT, but few trust its 2024 election information
It’s been more than a year since ChatGPT’s public debut set the tech world abuzz.…
Should generative AI programs credit their sources? Many US adults say yes
Overall, 54% of Americans say artificial intelligence programs that generate text and images, like ChatGPT…
How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance,…