This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...

Finding the perfect study technique is a common goal for students, especially as midterms and finals loom. Strategies like the Pomodoro method, spaced repetition and active recall are popular, but ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WorldQuant University (WQU) has launched the Deep Learning Fundamentals Lab, a free, 16-week online certificate program designed to equip learners with advanced technical ...

Anthropic launched learning modes in Claude chatbot and Claude Code. Instead of creating answers, they use the Socratic approach to guide you. You can select 'Learning' from the style dropdown to ...

This past spring, Anthropic introduced learning mode, a feature that changed Claude's interaction style. When enabled, the chatbot would, following a question, try to guide the user to their own ...

Abstract: Quantum computing, in the last few years, has made tremendous gains both scientifically and commercially. The recent announcements by Google and Microsoft ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.