Insulin is “the most potent glucose-lowering agent.” However, there are many factors to take into account in the decision to initiate insulin therapy and in the formulation selected. These include the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The case of the so-called “monkey selfie” is a fascinating one when ...

Twitter, the social media device that often produces a toxic mixture of snark and narcissism, rarely bringing out the best in people. But scientists studying the platform are searching for a useful ...

They say if you fold 1,000 origami cranes out of individual sheets of paper your deepest wishes will be granted. I tried it once – I was a lonely college kid – and I ended up with pink eye. However, a ...

When Netflix recommends you watch “Grace and Frankie” after you’ve finished “Love,” an algorithm decided that would be the next logical thing for you to watch. And when Google shows you one search ...

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Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face. Many of Bitcoin's properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to a large extent ...

If you're roaming the internet, you might run across recommendation engines. Some offer products or services you'd actually want to use, but does interacting with them harm your privacy even more?

It is no doubt that everyone has come in contact with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, perhaps without knowing that they have or what those algorithms are. For example when you are making a purchase ...

Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late '80s and '90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of machine-learning algorithms didn't ...