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As drivers face high holiday gas prices, California officials are looking beyond refineries to brands, algorithms and retail pricing.

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These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...

Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By applying a 1980s ...

A study of 26,000 students found AI boosted homework scores while eroding exam performance. The AI trap responsible may be at ...

I was on A.J. Rice’s Dangerous Laughter podcast recently, and we got into a discussion about Generation X. Actually, that’s ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

I got tired of frustrating, error-filled troubleshooting sessions with AI chatbots, so I asked Copilot for help.

Google's loyalty tools reward publishers readers already trust. Here's what that means for sites that need to earn awareness before they can earn preference.

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...