Is viral puzzle game Block Blast rigged? A developer’s backend deep dive reveals how a secret “death algorithm” and ad-harvesting strategy are driving millions in revenue.

As marketers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create content and improve the efficiency of their workflows, a new study by a Penn State researcher and collaborators proposes ...

'AI is a mirror, not a magic wand.It doesn't fix broken engineering cultures, it exposes them, loudly.' For anyone who’s spent time in the technology profession, silos are a curse cast upon any and ...

Despite most ‘functional’ gyms being on their third or fourth generation of rowing, skiing or biking apparatus, the pro free weights war cry of ‘we don’t use machines, we build them!’ still rings loud ...

THE STARTING-point for effective altruism was a simple assumption, that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad.” Yet adherents fear they may be hastening an ending, ...

THOUGHT PRECEDES deed as lightning precedes thunder, wrote the poet Heinrich Heine. So it has proved with effective altruism (EA), an ethical doctrine cooked up by philosophers in Oxford that has gone ...