Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children. By Adam Satariano Reporting from London TikTok’s endless ...

There’s something almost invisible about the way modern entertainment works. You open a streaming app, glance at a homepage filled with titles you were “just thinking about,” or launch a game that ...

The enterprise AI market is currently nursing a massive hangover. For the past two years, decision-makers have been inundated with demos of autonomous agents booking flights, writing code, and ...

Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,” coined ...

Results: Out of 8,452,630 total sleep logs collected over a median of 4.2 years of Fitbit monitoring, 401,777 (4.75%) nonprimary sleep logs identified by the default algorithm were reclassified as ...

The police surveillance company Flock has built an enormous nationwide license plate tracking system, which streams records of Americans’ comings and goings into a private national database that it ...

Abstract: Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used for dimensionality reduction of large datasets and is an important feature extraction technique for source separation. However, NMF ...

For non-planar graphs, such solutions are computationally intractable," explained the researchers. The algorithm relies on the Kac-Ward formalism, a mathematical method that allows exact computation ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional ...