Abstract: Sleep disorder classification is crucial in improving human quality of life. Sleep disorders and apnoea can have a significant influence on human health. Sleep-stage classification by ...

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 ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Daniel Mendelsohn, a humanities professor at Bard College, gave a lecture Monday about his experience translating Homer’s epic poem, “The Odyssey.” Mendelsohn’s translation of “The Odyssey” was ...

Will Starbucks’ AI be able to predict your order in the future? At the annual Dreamforce AI conference last week, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol hinted at blue sky innovations like predictive ordering and ...

Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control ...

Algorithms will not simply contribute to science; they will reorganize it. We sketch how science will look in the near future. Notably, algorithms will formalize crucial parts of science that ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Coal has been on the way out for a decade now. The industry’s future was considered mainly dead and buried — until the Trump administration decided to dig it out of the grave. Rowland-Shea is the ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...