Category: 3. Tech

Hate speech, political propaganda and outright lies are hardly new problems online—even if election years such as this one exacerbate them. The use of bots, or automated social media accounts, has made it much easier to spread deliberately…

Cybercrime Security Gap Leaves People Who Aren’t Proficient in English Poorly Protected

Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift—And Everyone Else—From Deepfakes

As artificial intelligence applications become more advanced, lawmakers worldwide are grappling with the possibility of unintended consequences: not just potential existential danger to humanity but also the more immediate risks of job losses,…

Developers of artificial intelligence are well aware, and share the concern, that their large language models could perpetuate racial and cultural biases. In response, they have tried to assemble diverse development teams to make sure that…

Artificial intelligence and human thought both run on electricity, but that’s about where the physical similarities end. AI’s output arises from silicon and metal circuitry; human cognition arises from a mass of living tissue. The…

A team of student researchers has made a giant contribution to solving one of the biggest mysteries in archaeology by revealing the content of Greek writing inside a charred scroll buried 2,000 years ago by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The…

As the digital age has advanced, satellites have become indispensable pillars of our modern world that orchestrate navigation, communication and commerce. But these serene celestial sentinels face a lurking threat: cyberattacks. If left…

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For the past decade, reports of UFO sightings have filled headlines and news broadcasts, and some of these have come from a surprising place: the…

High-temperature superconductivity is one of the holy grails of physics. It also seems to attract a steady stream of controversy, with a recent string of retracted papers and provocative claims that haven’t held up to scrutiny.

Superconductivity…