Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
A study of American politicians’ tweets shows they’ve become angrier and more crass over the last decade. Why? Because social media algorithms reward them for it.
# tech
What's holding the tech giants back from addressing racists and bigots trying to overrun their platforms isn't the limits of their technology. It's fear.
# tech
It’s not your imagination, social media and product rankings are being gamed with very obvious tricks tech companies are refusing to stop.
# tech
Experts are worried we’re ceding too many decisions to recommendation algorithms and are on a slippery slope to exploitation and learned helplessness. In reality, we’d be lost and very frustrated without them.
# oddities
Thanks to modern technology and streaming platforms, conspiracy theories are big business, meaning that you’re quite literally paying to have people mess with your mind.
# tech
To keep the stock market under human control, should we crack down on high frequency trading algorithms and what they can do?
# tech
High frequency trading algorithms are creating market patterns humans can barely follow. As they get even faster, the market may be under their control more often than it's under ours.
# tech
How accurate are the comparisons between how our brains work and how computers calculate? A trio of researchers decided to find out.
# tech
Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...
# evolution
The Discovery Institute and its merry band of pseudoscientists seem to believe they can overturn the science of evolution by filibustering courts with meaningless buzzwords.