Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

The way central bankers put their objectives into practice is influenced by the star variables. Specifying a target for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Small commitments to yourself may feel trivial — but psychologists say they may ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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 ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

In a recent column, I wrote, “‘Vote for us, we hate Trump,’ is hardly a winning strategy for Democrats.” I was wrong. It turns out, peddling hate wins elections. Much has been made of last week’s ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Last week’s election results are a reality check for the Trump administration. Democrats didn’t just run up the score in deep-blue enclaves. With power prices soaring, they flipped two Georgia utility ...

A group of mission-driven bankers is feeding information into generative AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude on Monday, in hopes of retraining the public-facing models to better understand what ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --Not only have Americans fallen prey to pursuing a seemingly simple answer to a complicated and complex problem, but they also have badly failed. Venezuela is the current poster child ...