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 ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

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 ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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 ...

Build your first neural network step by step! Learn how a perceptron works by coding it from the ground up—no libraries, just Python. FCC chair issues warning to ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 2 Mental Health Center, University-Town Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, ...

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a comprehensive machine learning approach for credit score classification, addressing key challenges in financial risk assessment. We propose an optimized CatBoost-based ...

A Perceptron is a basic learning algorithm invented in 1959 by Frank Rosenblatt. It is meant to mimic the working logic of a biological neuron. The human brain is basically a collection of many ...

1 Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico 2 Smart Computing Laboratory, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, Mexico ...