Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. A ...

Over the past year, it's become pretty clear that machines can now beat us in many straightforward zero-sum games. A new study from an international team of computer scientists set out to develop a ...

For years, scientists have been hunting for futuristic materials that could outperform steel and iron — ideally, at a fraction of the environmental cost. Globally, an estimated 1881.4 million tonnes ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem. As a child, you develop a sense of what “fairness” means. It’s a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...