If shared reality is breaking down, here’s a plan for what can come next: limit algorithmic amplification, add friction to ...

Facades, cluttered. Materials, uncomplimentary. Bathroom tiles glisten at the base of a facade, and glass railings on Juliet balconies cast distorted reflections of plastic triangular profiles. In ...

Could the deepest laws of nature ever be reduced to lines of code? A team of physicists from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy has come up with a definitive answer: no. A new ...

A new study has suggested that the idea of our universe being a simulation does not hold up at all, and it's not because of a lack of imagination. The theory that our lived experience is actually a ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue. Reading time 3 minutes How do we know we’re not ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – City council is considering the ban on algorithmic rent fixing tools. Algorithms are being used to boost efficiency in the real estate industry, but not everyone is convinced of their ...

According to data from Duke University Reporters' Lab, there are 443 platforms actively engaged in fact-checking worldwide (Duke Reporters' Lab, 2025). These organizations play an important role in ...

Shortly before President George W. Bush was reelected, in 2004, an anonymous Bush-administration source told The New York Times, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” ...

As algorithms become more widespread within government institutions, there are two basic challenges. One is to design better ...