A new academic paper examines how autonomous AI agents could make influence campaigns harder to detect and more effective at scale.
Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to ...
A novel uncrewed aircraft unveiled by China in late 2024 to deploy large numbers of small drones has recently logged its first flight. Known alternatively as the “Jetank” or “Jiutian”, the large ...
Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.
An earthquake swarm hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday morning. The cluster of up to eight quakes, ranging from 2.5 to 3.8 on the Richter scale, first occurred from 9:38am to 9:41am around ...
A 40-minute series of quakes, including the 3.8 temblor, began at 9:38 a.m., the USGS reported.. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of more than 20 earthquakes reaching up to 3.8 magnitude rattled San ...
Daniel Owen, 47, and his son, Cooper, 15, died after being stung dozens of times last month by what appeared to be so-called murder hornets. By Damien Cave and Sui-Lee Wee Damien Cave reported from Ho ...
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 ...
Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.