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The billionaires behind Facebook and Google can do more than hand out glitzy awards for science. They should fund the research the Trump administration has canned

The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Minecraft by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions

Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit

Google’s new chip, Willow, has achieved the exponential suppression of errors. The advance is substantial, but Willow remains far from delivering on any practical applications

A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback. And now scientists know what caused it

Alternatives to Google Search include Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and Ecosia

A Google experiment to improve stoplights shows early positive results. But AI-assisted software won’t replace human traffic engineers just yet

An antitrust expert explains Monday’s landmark legal decision that Google illegally cemented its dominance in Internet search

During the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, Google DeepMind debuted an AI program that can generate complex mathematical proofs

Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, all 150 million connections

The potential of geothermal energy as a carbon-free power source is well known. Now companies such as Google are helping to unlock it

Politically polarized Google users are not steered to partisan sites by the search engine’s algorithm but generally decide to go there on their own

Gonzalez v. Google seeks to hold tech giants accountable for recommendation algorithms in a complicated case that could see the Supreme Court meddle in more than 25 years of Internet policy

Google, Microsoft and Baidu are using tools similar to ChatGPT to turn Internet searches into a conversation. How will this change humanity's relationship with machines?

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how its AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein

Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to be sentient? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The new rules could put pressure on Facebook to take similar steps

An online animal catalogue lets you decode communications and other behaviors for everyone's favorite pachyderm

Open repository will give free access to more than 160 million data points with details about individual infections

Google's deep-learning program for determining the 3-D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, scientists say

The software detected cancers at higher rates than radiologists, with fewer false positives

For better or for worse, navigation apps change our sense of direction

The company says that its quantum computer is the first to perform a calculation that would be practically impossible for a classical machine

Internet queries about opioids are linked to drug-related hospital admissions

Google as a window into our private thoughts