A bird’s-eye view of the solar system shows the orbital path for Earth in blue and the projected orbit for the asteroid known as 2022 SF289 at its closest approach in green. Orbits of Venus and Mars ...

Twitter has been trialing an unprecedented method to find the hidden biases in its own algorithms. The social media platform has enrolled external researchers in a one-of-a-kind competition, in which ...

WhatsApp is experimenting with a big change to one of its most popular features. Credit: Hayoung Jeon/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock WhatsApp is experimenting with a big ...

COMPUTERS are getting ethical. A new approach for testing whether algorithms contain hidden biases aims to prevent automated systems from perpetuating human discrimination. Machine learning is ...

Kate Smith-Miles receives funding from the Australian Research Council as a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow, and as a Chief Investigator in the Australian Centre of Excellence in ...

IN AN ideal world the data on which a scientific study is based should be, if not publicly available, then at least available to other researchers with a legitimate interest in asking. Sadly, this is ...