Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses humanity's long-time fascination with ginormous numbers—and what this obsession reveals ...

One ACLU client spent six months in jail, because police relied on facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify her as a suspect. She’s the fourteenth person known to be wrongfully arrested ...

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...

Public recognition, though meant to motivate, often creates anxiety and pressure for employees, feeling like a burden rather than a reward. This "paradox of recognition" can harm performance and ...

A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill covers the intersection of privacy and ...

Abstract: Human activity recognition (HAR) has long been an active research topic as it enables us to infer human behaviors and daily routines from sensor data collected on wearables or on sensors ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

Abstract: Long-tailed distributions frequently emerge in real-world data, where a large number of minority categories contain a limited number of samples. Such imbalance issue considerably impairs the ...