Ride-hailing app Uber has admitted to using workers’ “behavioural patterns” to determine their pay amid long-standing conflict with drivers over algorithmic transparency. The comment, made in a ...

Researchers out of the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a tool that can identify signs of depression through speech patterns. The team thinks it could help diagnose the condition ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then ...

Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of ...

Seventeen-year-old Maya is sitting in her bedroom, phone in hand, spiraling deeper into a conversation with her AI assistant about her climate anxiety. With each exchange, the LLM, trained on her ...

The New York Police Department developed new pattern-recognition computer software that compares robberies, larcenies and thefts to thousands of crimes in its database. Instead of officers poring over ...