Cook County's machine-learning tax model made assessments fairer, yet homeowner bills soared. The appeals system, not the algorithm, is the culprit.

“It’s an uncomfortable truth: more and more, we’re marketing to algorithms”, says Wesley ter Haar, co-founder and chief AI officer at Monks, explaining how those algorithms ultimately determine which ...

Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but the algorithm has made us all sheep. Meet the style rebels fighting back ...

Allowing an industry to self-regulate a technology this powerful introduces systemic risks that carry staggering financial ...

Why can two fields managed in exactly the same way differ so dramatically in nutrient efficiency, crop resilience or fertiliser response?  That’s what ...

Mirrorless cameras have largely taken over from DSLRs. That transition has lead to a different kind of engineering taking the ...

In her first year of graduate school at Stanford University, back in 2021, Sydney Erickson knew only that she was going to be a physicist. Now Erickson is finishing her doctoral degree and ...

This is technology that’s difficult to grasp, and the onus is on us to learn because it’s our future. But a lot of AI is not ...

Dreame’s new bladeless smart fan totally changed how I use my AC. And it’s now over $100 off.

Lizzo is not mincing words about how demoralizing it was that her new album, Bitch, failed to chart on the Billboard 200 album tally upon its release earlier this month. In a chat ...

When it fails, liability has to land somewhere — on a developer, a deploying company, a human operator, someone. But modern ...

For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first ...