An artist created a fake traffic jam with a wagonload of phones.
The Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps […]
computer science
How forensic linguistics reveals who wrote what. (Or, why JK Rowling and Alexander Hamilton can’t stay anonymous.)
National Geographic goes (or went – this article is from 2013) into the science of forensic linguists, using computers to analyze things like word choice […]
How a social network can be gerrymandered – and how that can affect our decision-making (and real-life voting).
Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few […]
An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously […]
Disinformation is not false information, and it’s not manufactured. And it doesn’t want you to believe anything.
Nature has an essay up by a disinformation researcher, who wants us to know that disinformation is usually partially true, and mostly spread by people […]
ICE is data-mining driver’s license photos.
TechCrunch reveals that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE, the agency formed in 2003 as a replacement for the INS – has been quietly […]
An inoculation against fake news: a video game in which you create propaganda.
The University of Cambridge has studied 15,000 people and determined that playing a quick browser game is effective in getting folks to resist the seductive […]
A computer beat doctors at diagnosing lung cancer.
The New York Times pits man against machine in a CT-scan interpretation challenge – and the machine won. An AI got fewer false positives and […]
Forbes is replacing articles editors with robots now?
I’m trying to parse this some other way, but Digiday is sure making it seem like this “topic prompter/rough draft creator” software is a step […]
It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions […]
Bots and fake news: how it works
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets […]
A peek at the quantum internet: secrets and superpositions
Nature speculates about the ways quantum computing will change the way the internet works, with unbreakable privacy and more: The first stages promise virtually unbreakable […]
An AI is writing for Wikipedia.
The high, whistling hiss you hear rising ever so slightly in volume in the background is the sound of white-collar jobs evaporating. Wired only begins […]
Voter ID laws: the real science.
Wired has a longer look at researchers who’ve boldly taken on the thankless task of taking on the whole “voter ID” controversy with real data […]
An AI has learned to play go… without being taught by humans.
Nature explains an artificial-intelligence breakthrough, with a computer that’s learned how to win at the complicated Asian game of go without studying the strategies and […]