Are left-handers better at mirror-writing than right-handers? Recently, a reader of this blog emailed me that she was left-handed and had noticed that she was much better at mirror-writing than ...

Social media algorithms are not politically neutral and can actively shape a person’s political opinions. A recent study published in the journal Nature provides evidence that switching on the ...

Here are the top 10 men's college basketball teams by NET ranking, who is already fighting on the bubble and the biggest risers and fallers through week 16.

One of the reasons for the crisis of credibility in much of journalism is the publication of sensationalist headlines. Despite its headline, the El Mundo article states: "The shift was not radical nor ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

The research, conducted by Germain Gauthier from Bocconi University, involved a randomized experiment with nearly 5,000 active users in the United States over a period of seven weeks, The Conversation ...

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...

Apple’s popular news app has been aggressively promoting articles from left-leaning news outlets — even as it has all but shut down posts from more conservative publications, according to an explosive ...

Having recently compiled a list of the best 100 players in baseball, MLB Network is now ranking the Top 10 Players Right Now at each position by way of the The Shredder. Their annual exercise began ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...