Two landmark jury verdicts against social media companies have arrived at the front of a wave of lawsuits alleging that the popular platforms endanger the mental health of children.

AI algorithms at a Greater Manchester school flagged Orwell's 1984 and 200 other books as dangerous, destroying a librarian's ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Cheers erupted on the streets of Providence Wednesday night with the anticipated arrival of new heavy machinery to clear snow. A 12 News crew drove through communities across ...

SEATTLE — A century-old redwood in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood was spared from the chainsaw after neighbors raised concerns that bald eagles have been using the towering tree as a regular ...

As snow piled up in front of bus stops and fire hydrants during New York City’s second winter storm of the year, city workers have tried to move fast to remove it before snow hardened into ice. A new ...

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French President Emmanuel Macron said "free speech" is "pure bulls---" without guidelines in an attack on social media giants for failing to restrict access for younger users. While speaking at the ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...

The CMS Collaboration has shown, for the first time, that machine learning can be used to fully reconstruct particle collisions at the LHC. This new approach can reconstruct collisions more quickly ...

Plus: Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to give evidence in a social media addiction trial This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in ...