In the teaching of computer science, metaphors and analogies are especially fitting: the essence of algorithms is abstract discrete structures, and to help learners quickly grasp the logic within, we ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

“They’re in this kind of paranoid bubble." One of the groups targeted by OpenAI, the AI governance nonprofit Encode, has had a particularly egregious experience dealing with the company’s legal might.

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he’s starting to worry that “dead internet theory” is coming true. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...

A woman investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has told Sky News she was shocked by the police interest in her. Portuguese and British police investigated the German woman seven years ...

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. By Dan Wang. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $31.99. Allen Lane; £25 Many of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the 1980s China has ...

Trump’s post comes just days after Kennedy was grilled by senators, including multiple Republicans, on his stance on vaccines. President Donald Trump’s post comes just days after Kennedy was grilled ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Mykhailo Mudryk may have failed a doping test due to a stem cell injection, with a Ukrainian journalist providing a new theory on the Chelsea winger. Mudryk was heavily linked with Arsenal but ended ...