When my late lab partner Xu Liu and I first illuminated the brain cells that stored a particular memory, it felt like watching a thought flicker back to life. We stimulated a constellation of neurons ...

Unlike Bitcoin, many altcoins have low liquidity and limited oversight, making them prone to price manipulation and insider exploitation. Sudden spikes in trading volume, large whale transfers to ...

Sometimes you just want a stock to be above a certain price. Maybe it’s to secure a performance bonus, avoid being delisted, prevent margin loans that would trigger or perhaps you are trying to ...

As the chief demographer at the nonprofit Data Center in New Orleans, Allison Plyer receives hundreds of data requests and questions each year. The Data Center compiles and analyzes data from multiple ...

Editor’s Note: In a previous article, Theo Warner explored how digital literacy programs can build resilience against harmful content online. One promising component is psychological ...

A team of researchers from the Harvard Business School has found that a broad selection of popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving. As spotted by ...

Diffusion generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in visual domains such as image and video generation. They have also recently emerged as a promising approach in robotics, especially ...

The Mimic team requested a simple example demonstrating contact-rich grasping of a hand asset grasping an object. This can be used as a reference example for setting up similar types of workflows and ...

Investor concerns about manipulation of the consumer-price index may be exaggerated. Such concerns have grown since President Donald Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...