Before she was named fire chief for Waterloo, Sandy van Solm developed an algorithm that helped earn her a PhD. Her idea was to apply it to electronic health records to identify the frailest seniors ...

Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications minister says. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...

Teenagers want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to new research led by University College Dublin. Rather than passive victims ...

Volkswagen of America appears to be getting back into the camper van space that it once championed. Sort of. The ID. Buzz is set to gain a unique camper van-like trim here in America, making it the ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

In September 2025, Peter Thiel—data overlord and éminence grise of the Trump presidency—convened a series of closed-door lectures in San Francisco on a subject that was, by Silicon Valley standards, ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

In februari 1999 verdween de toen 37-jarige Amsterdammer Alexander 'Lex' van Cittert compleet van de radar. Een kwart eeuw lang leefde zijn familie in tergende onzekerheid, hopend op een teken van ...

Source: Image by GlobalUppal from Pixabay. About two years ago I wrote about what I called iterative intelligence. The idea was that large language models were doing something genuinely new. They ...

Volkswagen withdrew its classic Transporter vans (Eurovan) from the American market after the 2003 model year, thus putting a fast end to a romantic decades-long era of great American road trips. The ...

Led by Intrepid Growth Partners and GV (Google Ventures), funding advances Iterative Health's position as the leading multispecialty clinical research network CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS ...