The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarre interviewed more than 50 victims, families, police, government officials and other experts about Spain’s gender violence program. In a small apartment outside ...

Want to go viral on social media? LinkedIn has a message for you: Try that somewhere else. “When things go viral on LinkedIn, usually that’s a sign to us that we need to look into this, because that’s ...

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Federal data shows that health insurance companies denied more than 49 millions claims in 2021, but customers appealed less than 0.2 percent of them. Investigative journalists at ProPublica found that ...

When quantum computers become powerful enough, they could theoretically crack the encryption algorithms that keep us safe. The race is on to find new ones. Tech Review Explains: Let our writers ...

The evolution of what posts get top billing on users’ news feeds, and what gets obscured Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism ...

How to prepare for the inevitable by François Candelon, Rodolphe Charme di Carlo, Midas De Bondt and Theodoros Evgeniou For most of the past decade, public concerns about digital technology have ...

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