In 2006, the U.S. patent office received a filing for “an automatically generated display that contains information relevant to a user about another user of a social network.”  Rather than forcing people... Read more »

Two things have happened, Li explains. Generative AI has caused the public to wake up to AI technology, she says, because it’s behind concrete tools, such as ChatGPT, that people can try... Read more »

The listed authors were “Zuckerberg et al.” and the product was the News Feed. The idea of showing users streams of activity wasn’t entirely new—­ photo-­sharing website Flickr and others had been... Read more »

Despite its correct predictions, Grzybowski’s reaction network is still a little theoretical. We also need to know how fast each of the reactions goes, and whether the by-products from earlier reactions will... Read more »

The quest to determine if anyone or anything is out there has gained greater scientific footing over the past 50 years. Back then, astronomers had yet to spot a single planet outside... Read more »

That’s the finding of a new report from Duke University researchers that shows how data brokers are selling this sort of information with minimal vetting to customers both domestically and overseas—creating major privacy and... Read more »

While humans have a long history of speculating about distant worlds, for much of that time actual evidence was in short supply. The first planets around other stars—known as exoplanets—were discovered in... Read more »

But what would happen if we took profit out of the equation and made drug discovery a collaborative process rather than a competitive one? That was the idea behind the Covid Moonshot,... Read more »