I studied computer science at University College Dublin, where the four-year course covered a broad range of topics. We ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond research laboratories to become a defining force in sustainable development, reshaping how societies manage energy, food security, climate resilience, ...

Abstract: Class imbalance is a persistent challenge in machine learning, particularly in high-stakes applications such as medical diagnostics, bioinformatics, and fraud detection, where the minority ...

Whether by design or by quiet submission to a rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the world’s largest social media companies have allowed their platforms to become factories of division, ...

Before Benny Safdie began shooting The Smashing Machine, Mark Kerr gave the filmmakers a wrestling lesson. The movie’s stunt team and others gathered around the padded ring at the Vancouver soundstage ...

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...

This research aims to reactivate object-oriented databases using intelligent tools to improve performance and accuracy in modern work environments that require processing large amounts of complex data ...