Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

While beating an AI at a board game may seem relatively trivial, it can help us identify failure modes of the AI, or ways in which we can improve their training to avoid having them develop these ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and teaches parents, students and teachers how to manage screen time. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is ...

Software engineering was supposed to be artificial intelligence’s easiest win. Today companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google have all released AI products geared specifically to ...

At his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Donald Trump made his latest push for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to overhaul elections by falsely claiming that “the only way” Democrats ...

Dr. Nahm was a White House economist in the Biden administration. Tesla’s factory in Shanghai produces far more cars per worker than its plant in California. The gap reflects something unsettling ...