Yann LeCun, one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence (AI) today, has informed colleagues he plans to ...
Opinion

The Validation Machines

When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because ...
A 61-YEAR-old caretaker has gone on trial in Germany after being accused of drugging, raping and secretly filming his wife for 15 years. The case already being likened to the horrific Gisèle ...
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.
Mandami says "when the NYPD's boot is on your neck [...] the IDF laced them up." Mamdani's anti-NYPD stance was based on much more than a fleeting reaction to the George Floyd episode. Now he says ...
A new generation of female journalists is using social media and magazines to give voice to Algerian women and denounce gender violence ...
Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite so grounded.
"We survived… but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars, also noting, "the world became ...
Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this ...
A man's quest to get a fallen World War One soldier recognised has been rewarded with a plaque in the French village where he ...