Indias e-commerce sales promise savings but often deliver clutter and regret. This 'un-how-to' piece explores why discounts trigger impulse buying, how “saving” is often an illusion, and why walking ...

We must shift our strategy from automation (replacing heads) to augmentation (increasing value). Data shows that job numbers ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

False alarm rate of artificial radioactive aerosol continuous monitor is inevitable. When the standard deviation of artificial radioactive aerosol concentration is determined, the minimum detection ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

Iranian cinema has risen to international prominence in recent decades, largely through the meticulous realism of such directors as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, who probe ordinary people’s lives ...

Introduction: Ablation of non-pulmonary vein triggers (NPVTs) after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) may reduce atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence. Localizing a trigger which initiates AF after a ...

From the physical world to the virtual world, algorithms are seemingly everywhere. David J. Malan, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, has been challenged to explain the science of ...

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

William Brady does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Mr. Murphy is the junior senator from Connecticut. Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that ...