Created in the early 20th century to measure human intelligence, IQ scores are commonly utilized for educational placement, ...

We are, to both our benefit and disadvantage, creatures of habit. We tend to get stuck in our ways quite easily, and it takes ...

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Federal immigration enforcement officials are using a growing arsenal of surveillance tools to track immigrants and protesters, including facial detection apps and databases, cellphone trackers and ...

California's most devastating wildfire—the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 and destroyed nearly 19,000 structures—forced ...

Foursquare chief people officer Kit Krugman explains why—and how—the geolocation tech and data company eliminated management roles in engineering to escape "calcification." ...

In recent years, numerous landslides on hillsides in urban and rural areas have underscored that understanding and predicting ...

Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling ...

The practice of listening into someone’s phone calls without their knowledge is “probably the most invasive form of government surveillance,” said Kade Crockford, the director of the Technology for ...

An overview of federal and state laws governing children’s and student privacy in the US, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), as well as sector-specific rules, ...

There's also a customer cost. More data often means more friction: extra verification steps, repeated identity checks, longer ...

Some TikTok users are raising questions about the app's new terms and conditions after the social media platform's split from ...