“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to channel supernatural forces.

A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have gene...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

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Fredric Jameson SINCE HIS DEATH on September 22 of last year at the age of 90, Marxist theorist and cultural critic, Fredric Jameson has been the subject of numerous tributes and remembrances. Arri…

Tech giant Meta announced it will build a massive data centre in central Alberta as it rapidly builds out computing capacity to support the global AI boom.

People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK.

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“If I didn’t have the answer to my research question yet it was because the answer was complex, not because of personal shortcomings,” this scientist writes

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

This week, Adam talks with Safiya Noble, professor of social science at UCLA and author of Algorithms of Oppression. They talk about how algorithms reinscribe systemic biases, what a better tech…

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The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investiga...

The rise of a “shadow gospel” reveals how deeply the language of demons and deliverance has shaped American politics.

Legendary trip-hop group Massive Attack is using an artistic rendering of notorious spy-tech firm Palantir’s own product against it. Gary McQuiggin reports.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

On June 14, the Swiss will vote on a right-wing initiative aiming to cap immigration.

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a series version of Elsie Silver's "Rose Hill" romance novels.