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This summer, Johns Hopkins will host a graduate student fellowship designed to prepare emerging data scientists to leverage the latest developments in generative artificial intelligence and machine ...

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The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., arrives for a hearing about fraud in Minnesota at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

If you've been planning to step up your data science game for the new year, the 2026 NPTEL course lineup from India's top IITs is honestly a goldmine. These courses cover the backbone of modern ...

This new law, already subject to lawsuits, lets shoppers know when companies are quietly raising online prices for certain types of customers. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of ...

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.