But the 2024 Noto earthquake was a call to action for a coalition of Japanese news publishers, advertisers, and technology companies that was already pushing for better tools to fight misinformation.

Peer review became universal almost accidentally, as a way to solve a branding problem. In the 1970s, the US economy was ...

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Concept design for the McClung class Medium Landing Ship. (Sekishou Productions via Marine Corps) The Navy this week awarded a $2.2 billion Vessel Construction Management contract to the Jacksonville, ...

In an era defined by fragmentation, sports stands alone. Audiences today consume media through personalized algorithms, niche communities, and endless streams of individualized content. Culture often ...

The internet is teeming with novel opportunities to get ripped off. Scams and flimflams have always been part of the consumer economy, but now they seem to be lurking everywhere. Between AI-generated ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

U.S. Marines on Guam recently fired the service’s new Medium-Range Intercept Capability system, representing the validation of the Corps’ first medium-range air defense system since the divestment of ...

It's a busy time of year for eliminating invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and earning money for doing it. On Friday (July 10) the Florida Python Challenge started. For the next 10 days, hunters ...

Florida's 2026 Python Challenge begins today, and will last until July 19. A $10,000 reward will be issued to whoever removes the most Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Last year, more than 900 ...

The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts. By Eli Tan Reporting from Seattle When Meta unveiled an artificial ...

Acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya at the White House on April 18. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP) Last month, JAMA Network Open published an article led by researchers from the Centers for Disease ...