When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data, they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual Information (or NMI) to measure how well an algorithm's output matches reality.

When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data, they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual Information (or NMI) to measure how well an algorithm’s output matches reality.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called on X to use blockchain and ZK-proofs to make its content-ranking algorithm verifiably fair and censorship-resistant. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

HARRISONVILLE, MO. — Officials in a Missouri town recently announced it would work with JBQ Meats, a parent company of Kansas City's Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue, to convert an existing building ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Major challenges in toxicity prediction include dealing with imbalanced and limited ...

In 2014, Halle Berry starred in the sci-fi series “Extant” where she played an astronaut struggling to conceive. Her husband, a robotics engineer, created a lifelike android whom the couple took in ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...