Faulty transmissions of data caused the false earthquake alert sent to communities across Northern California Thursday, said a seismic expert with the early warning project. The issue was what Angie ...

Spotify Wrapped was released on Wednesday, providing users of the music streaming app with personalized year-end statistics and data, including their most-played artists, songs and albums of 2025. Now ...

The LinkedIn algorithm can feel like a mysterious gatekeeper, deciding which posts reach only a few connections and which break free into wider feeds. For professionals, creators, and brands, ...

Mr. Schmidt is a former chief executive and chairman of Google. Mr. Sorota is Mr. Schmidt’s head of research. Albania is the first country to take a real step toward “algocracy”: government by ...

Imagine appearing for a job interview and, without saying a single word, being told that you are not getting the role because your face didn’t fit. You would assume discrimination, and might even ...

Artificial intelligence may be changing how content is made, but its bigger impact on media is how the technology is altering who is able to access that content, one media executive said. Jyoti ...

The massive tax cut bill President Trump signed in July is forcing states to grapple with a pivotal question: With federal Medicaid spending projected to drop drastically, which patients should get ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

The day starts well before most people are even aware of it. In the morning, your smartphone wakes you seven minutes before iOS’ sleep tracking algorithm determines your wake-up time, and then plays a ...

Two consumers allege that Amazon misled customers by promoting false discounts on its site during its summer Prime Day sale. In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in September in a federal court in ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.