Quantum technologies like quantum computers are built from quantum materials. These types of materials exhibit quantum properties when exposed to the right conditions. Curiously, engineers can also ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

In a bid to become less reliant on Google, I swapped the popular search engine for an AI alternative, Perplexity. Here's what ...

For many media organizations, the threat of "Google Zero" is increasingly becoming a reality. Between November 2024 and November 2025, traffic from Google ...

AI systems label and score content before ranking. Annotation determines how you’re understood — and whether you compete at all.

If you're going to force me to talk to the computer, it better be smarter than this.

Fragmented online systems leave businesses exposed to uncertainty, with limited control over how they’re perceived. Managing that tension is now part of doing business.​ ...

Abstract: This paper examines Decision Tree Classifier (DTC) Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that are constructed using node-splitting techniques, including variance-related measures, Statistical ...

Google released the March 2026 core update today, the company announced. This is Google’s first core update of 2026. It follows the quick March 2026 spam update from a couple of days ago and the ...

Google has unveiled TurboQuant, a new AI compression algorithm that can reduce the RAM requirements for large language models by 6x. By optimizing how AI stores data through a method called ...