Data

Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than you might expect

A little math from the 1600s can make what people send to a printer more vulnerable

Alternatives to Google Search include Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and Ecosia

Is baby Skynet already here? We need robust laws now to withstand eliminating humans from nuclear decision-making

Exposing the antiscience playbook reveals the antiregulatory motives of its deep-pocketed bankrollers

The CPORT algorithm, commonly used to estimate the risk that a child pornography offender will offend again, hasn’t been validated for use in the U.S.

We face a moment of opportunity—and competition—in bringing digital twin technology to patients

Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves.

Amid rising numbers of cyber threats, safeguarding our satellites is no longer optional but a necessity for global security and reliability

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

Some of our favorite stories this year are best told visually

Whatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have been eviscerated. While it remains a nonprofit, it’s proven entirely beholden to ruthless capitalism