Earlier this month, a British corporal demonstrates a grenade machine gun provided to Ukrainian forces that can fire a barrage of 32 grenades a minute and cover a distance up to 2.2 kilometers. (Ed ...

A group of social scientists at the University of Chicago claim to have invented a computer algorithm that can predict future crimes up to one week in advance with 90% accuracy. They tested the ...

It feels strange to think back to a time when we weren’t so concerned with social media algorithms. To the layperson, algorithms were just a nebulous mix of code that we knew controlled what we were ...

Imagine. You spend your formative high school years with your nose in a weighty textbook, at the same time avoiding parties and dating. Then, clutching a 4.0 GPA, you head to a top-tier university to ...

But there's a silver lining to all this. In a recent LinkedIn post, Don Pepper explains that predictive analytics, applied against Big Data, can deliver more power to consumers. It's long been said ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...