Starting July 1, medical students who take the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) test will just have to be a little bit smarter. That's because the USMLE ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

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.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As housing costs in Portland are skyrocketing faster than wages, the city council voted 8-2 in favor of banning artificial intelligence apartment pricing algorithms on ...

Posted: November 20, 2025 | Last updated: November 20, 2025 As housing costs in Portland are skyrocketing faster than wages, the city council voted 8-2 in favor of banning artificial intelligence ...

Someone in The Colony won more than $1 million in a Texas Two Step drawing earlier this month. The Texas Lottery said the winner, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed a jackpot worth $1,075,005 in ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. In late 2022, when ChatGPT was released, I wasn’t very worried about the ...

Someone just got a whole lot richer after a $1 million Texas Two Step Lottery ticket was sold at a West Texas convenience store on Thursday, October 16, according to the Texas Lottery website. In ...

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 ...