Digital Gems

The app’s hits seem to emerge organically, but the success of artists like Megan Thee Stallion reveals a highly managed curation process.

Recently researchers proposed the term ‘Type-3-Diabetes’ for Alzheimer's disease (ad) because of the shared molecular and cellular features among Type…

Ana Brandusescu  (McGill University) Michael Canares (StepUp Consulting) Silvana Fumega (ILDA)   In June 2020, we had the opportunity to join a discussion on open contracting and inclusion organised by ...

The German company CureVac hopes its RNA vaccine will rival those made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. It could be ready next month.

A group (Jack Harlow, Pete Davidson, Chris Redd) performs a rap explaining cryptocurrency.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3uQxh4qS...

Colorado is at a COVID crossroads as vaccinations slow amid rising case numbers and hospitalizations.

The stakes are high when it comes to using machine learning in government. Building these three key considerations into your work should help you prevent your project from causing unintended harm.

Hair transplants, not so much.

For over a decade, the image of a young girl smirking in the foreground as a home in the background is engulfed in flames has circulated as fodder for countless memes. The picture, known simply as…

Five cases of the B1617.2 strain first identified in India have been discovered in Mesa County.

The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children.

Factories start at $15 billion—and cost is the easy part.

America has seen decades of consolidation of its hospitals, raising prices for consumers. President Biden now wants to do something about it.

It’s a trickier question than you might think.

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-hiccup-john-cameronThe longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years … and was caused by a falli...

As of the Dec. 15 deadline, 97.9% of active duty soldiers in the US Army have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine, slightly trailing 98% of the Navy but slightly higher than the Air Force (97.5%) and the Marine Corps (95%). The Air Force discharged 27 airmen who had refused to get the shot and the Navy has fired one sailor for refusing to be tested while he was pursuing an exemption.

It’s been three years since the Apple Design Team moved into its new premises. Take a glimpse at the new awe-inspiring circular campus.

Casual computer users have probably never heard of this logging software, but it's used across the entire internet.

The mission is expected to launch in 2023 and could kick off a series of launches that could help reveal whether Earth's "evil twin" once hosted— or still hosts— life.

Facebook parent identified and cracked down on six cyber mercenary companies that spied on as many as 50,000 users in 100 countries.

Former NASA engineer released the fourth iteration of his signature Glitter Bomb revenge against porch pirates.

Australian miners found a millipede with 1,306 legs, making it a "true" millipede. The typical millipede has 750 legs.

Over his first nine months in office, President Biden has lost support among Americans of all stripes — men and women, Black voters and white voters, Zoomers an…

On a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party has added enough safe House districts to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone.

We answer your most pressing questions about redistricting and gerrymandering.

As the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund kick off next week, the Bretton Woods institutions are mired in scandal. I want to set aside the broader political calculations and focus on the case at hand: the Doing Business scandal. Facts matter, and the credibility of the World Bank and IMF matters beyond current leadership. So let’s review what we actually know about the data manipulation, how it arose, and who may be to blame, starting at the very beginning.

Proponents of work requirements for social safety net programmes argue that they promote self-sufficiency by encouraging work, while opponents contend that they reduce benefits for the most