A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000). Only ...

The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, backlash; then, finally, a more considered view of what it might actually be good for. The first hype books ...

Excerpted from "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" Machine learning plays a part in every stage of your life. If you studied online for the ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

The way that books are selected for publication has remained basically the same for years: editors read over a manuscript and decide if they think it has potential and is a good fit. But that could be ...

One fine summer morning, you show up for a scheduled appointment for your regular checkup at the highly rated local health clinic. You walk in feeling fine. You raise your arm and say, “Doc, it hurts ...

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Franz Kafka wrote in Prague in the 1920s. His work was based on the existential philosophy, and thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche greatly influenced him. In Kafka’s worldview, the individual ...

A future author writing a history of human technology will take note of November 30, 2022. In a tweet thread that afternoon, @sama wrote, “today we launched ChatGPT ...