An Orange County, California, library system violated state law with its policy of restricting young people’s access to “sexually explicit” materials, a judge has ruled. Earlier this month, Orange ...

The Burlington County Library System has reported significant increases in library usage one year after implementing a fine-free policy Checkouts rose 36% and thousands of new library cards were ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Google Translate is getting a couple of upgrades that give it a serious functional boost. The mobile app now enables back-and-forth chats in real time with voice and on-screen text translations. The ...

On Monday, Steam announced that it would be changing how it evaluates user reviews around titles, shifting its emphasis towards language-specific averages that would better match the cultural context ...

This illustration draws a parallel between quantum state tomography and natural language modeling. In quantum tomography, structured measurements yield probability outcomes that are aggregated to ...

An artificial-intelligence model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down. Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 ...

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have discovered that the brain uses a dual system for learning through trial and error. This is the ...

Four Sarasota-Manatee area hospitals received "A" grades for patient safety in the Spring 2025 Leapfrog Group rankings. Sarasota Memorial Hospital's Sarasota campus, along with HCA Florida Sarasota ...

Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is it okay to use pirated books to train AI?” The machine’s response was unequivocal. “Using pirated books to train AI is not okay,” it admonished. “In ...