If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Imagine opening up your favourite social media app and only seeing updates from your friends. No suggested content, rage bait or targeted advertising — just curated posts from the people you choose to ...

TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance has signed a deal with investors to run its business in the US. But what does this mean for the over 170 million Americans (or so the social media platform claims) who ...

Some describe social media algorithms as black boxes, dark spaces that have substantial control over what you see but offer virtually zero insight into how they do their dark magic. Instagram is ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KGUN) — Senator Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) introduced landmark legislation Tuesday aimed squarely at what he calls “surveillance pricing,” a practice in which companies use consumers’ ...

Originally developed as diabetes medication, drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic are now famous for bringing about rapid weight loss thanks to their ability to silence 'food noise' and reduce hunger. But ...

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney has introduced a bill that would allow tech companies to be sued if their algorithms negligently expose users to harmful content. Together with Utah Republican Mike ...