The site’s owner uses AI to scrape the web, including social media platforms and professional profiles, for contact details. The scraped information is then compiled to create an entry on the site’s ...

LONDON — Not even Boris Johnson can escape the tempting clutches of AI. The former British prime minster expressed love for the technology and commended large language model ChatGPT… for praising him.

An employee of WGN-TV was released without charges after she was arrested by ICE agents on Friday in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. Debbie Brockman apparently saw U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

As technology continues to seep into every corner of our lives, including adults and kids, parents across the U.S. are struggling with a not-so-new but evolving challenge. How to keep their children’s ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

Estimating the square root is an easy way to begin. Pick two whole numbers whose squares are closest to your given number. Then, you can use these numbers as approximations. For example, let’s find an ...

Last year, Nate Sanford filed a “silly story” for Spokane’s alt-weekly Inlander about a state senator getting into a Twitter argument with an AI porn spambot. The bot was eventually suspended after ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

An off-duty FDNY firefighter, who was in possession of methamphetamine, was arrested early Tuesday for using a cane to beat a man in Times Square, police said. Lexiano Harris is accused of attacking ...