Abstract: The background subtraction algorithm has been proven to be a very effective technique for automated video surveillance applications. In statistical approach, background model is usually ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

What happens when technology takes the wheel in our love lives? From dating apps and AI-powered matchmaking to full-on digital companionship, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a third party ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

A funny thing happened this week on the way to digging more into the ramifications of the new budget law that will ravage Medicaid funding by record amounts. Some providers had praise for it. That’s ...

Mikel Hernaez receives funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the government of Navarra, the EU Department of Defence, the Carlos III Health Institute and the ...

The cyclical, now AI-fueled, “SEO is dead” panic cycle is in full swing. But here’s what most of those headlines miss: Search isn’t a platform, it’s a behavior. Whether people are typing into Google ...

Offline, in real-world Los Angeles, most Angelenos are having a perfectly normal day. But online, the fires and riots are still raging. The powerful algorithms that fuel social media platforms are ...

Data company RealPage is confronted with state and local efforts to ban its algorithmic pricing system for landlords in the rental-apartment market. Now, a provision buried in House Republicans’ mega ...

MIT researchers created a periodic table of machine learning that shows how more than 20 classical algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from ...