National Geographic goes (or went – this article is from 2013) into the science of forensic linguists, using computers to analyze things like word choice […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TechCrunch reveals that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE, the agency formed in 2003 as a replacement for the INS – has been quietly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scientific American takes a cold, calculating look at research into the origins of our behavior. Just like parasites can spur suicidal behavior in certain hosts […]
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