Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Why do we misunderstand one of modernism’s great writers? No one understands Gertrude Stein. For this, we should all give thanks. It is almost a cliché to emphasize her work’s difficulty, but her ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Rob Reiner’s death has cast a pall over Hollywood and the millions of fans he entertained with the films he directed. Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Los Angeles home on ...

"Master of the Loom" at New York's Sapar Contemporary shines a light on the American artist's legendary weavings. Ethel Stein. Courtesy of Sapar Contemporary and The Stein Family. Stein was born in ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Karger Publishers, the Basel, Switzerland-based medical press, with the transaction to be finalized in December. "We are ...

What to do with Gertrude Stein? Decades after her death, she still bestrides the literary landscape like a mastodon, impossible to ignore, determined to take up space. A confrere of Pablo Picasso, ...

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 ...

The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word. By Christopher Benfey Christopher Benfey is ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...