My experience in emerging tech gives me hope, but if the people who can fashion a future worth living in decide to opt out, ...

Learning another language is one of the deepest and most human things one can possibly do, writes Douglas Hofstadter.

Overture Games, an after-school program used in several Chicago schools and youth centers, relies on old-school paper and pencil to teach students AI skills. But as AI education lags in elementary ...

This video demonstrates various instances of unsuccessful gameplay attempts within Minecraft. The footage features several scenarios where players attempt to follow specific building or survival ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...

This Pew Research Center report examines religious switching in the United States, including the reasons people give for staying in or leaving their childhood religion. It also looks at social and ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

Of course, some investors may point to yesterday's marketwide decline as a key reason why certain under-the-radar tokens may have some impetus to rally in today's session. But it's also true that a ...

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...