For far too long, two specters have been haunting the world of artificial intelligence and warfare, and they both featured in ...

Every era has its quiet crisis. Ours is unfolding not on factory floors or picket lines, but behind glowing laptop screens, ...

Recently, I was at an event where a representative from an organisation advocating for better data stewardship made an impassioned argument: data workers, they said, should have rights over the data ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

Council member Ryan Gerfers (from left), Mayor Eugene Escobar Jr., council member Bryan Washington and council member Cristina Todd listen to an update on a planned multigenerational facility by Chase ...

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 ...

Princeton University is facing a pair of proposed class-action lawsuits alleging it failed to protect personal data exposed from a November phone-based phishing scam. The lawsuits, filed in U.S.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms. A new bill would hold ...

A Princeton team built a new tantalum-silicon qubit that survives for over a millisecond, far surpassing today’s best devices. The design tackles surface defects and substrate losses that have limited ...

Kansas hosts Princeton at Allen Fieldhouse Saturday, 1 p.m., streamed on ESPN+. Princeton relies on guard Dalen Davis and veteran leadership under coach Mitch Henderson. Kansas sustains 22-game ...

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 ...