Computing

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

The GDPR may offer a way forward that allows consumers to reclaim control of their information

Scientists have developed machine-learning that can teach itself to visualize a three-dimensional scene from unobserved angles

The task of detecting abusive posts and comments on social media is not entirely technological

The most immediate AI threat may be the distortion of truth; something we, and other species, have been doing for a long time

Next-generation transportation systems are relatively easy to trick