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YouTube, Facebook and other sites are working together to find and delete extremist propaganda and recruiting videos, but a new study says they can do better

Extreme sea level rise could swamp internet cabling and hubs by 2033—and coastal cities like New York, Seattle and Miami are at greatest risk. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Shark researchers used a system for recognizing patterns in star field photographs to identify whale sharks, which have individual spot patterns.

The feat could pave the way for more powerful computing, although the technology is still in its early stages

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism last year to prevent terrorists from exploiting their services

The free, online outlet allows academics on the continent to share their work

Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise talks about the need for standardizing robots and diversifying engineering teams

Researchers have developed tools to study the cognitive, societal and algorithmic biases that help fake news spread

Tech giants are grappling with questions about illicit sales on their platforms

At the second Science on the Hill event, AI, Robotics and Your Health, experts from academia and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about the future of AI and robotics in medicine.  

They fear the online platform will become less open, but other researchers say the buyout could make GitHub more useful