However, girls tend to be more diligent in elementary school and get better grades in math class throughout their schooling. And girls and boys across the grades tend to score similarly on state math ...

Sale talks for TikTok’s U.S. operations have been complicated by the key question of whether the app’s core algorithms can be included as part of a deal, according to a report in The Wall Street ...

A periodic feature by Cornerstone Research, in which our affiliated experts, senior advisors, and professionals, talk about their research and findings. We interview Professor Ben Handel of the ...

Part 2, Digital Inequality Series: Under what conditions can artificial intelligence benefit all of society vs. just a few people? Kalinda Ukanwa, a quantitative marketing scholar at the University of ...

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

Trump extends TikTok ban deadline—but will the algorithm survive a possible US buyer? President Donald Trump pushed TikTok’s ban to December 16. A U.S. buyer may be coming—but what happens to the ...

Following through on a campaign promise, president-elect Donald Trump recently appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to co-lead an effort they are calling the Department of Government Efficiency, or ...

Algorithms are biased—and Facebook’s is no exception. Just last week, the tech giant was sued by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development over the way it let advertisers purposely target ...