Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers is terribly limited, says data visualization expert Alan Smith. In this delightful talk, Smith explores the mismatch between what we know and what we think we know.
We are dwelling in a hyperconnected world today. Technology is not merely moulding the face of industries but is penetrating every aspect of human existence. It is redrawing the very blueprint of what ...
There are so many wonderful snippets from the third annual Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report, but this is the one I read first: I glanced up from my phone. That’s where I was reading ...
Education Week Staff Writer Libby Stanford spent the past four months talking to parents, superintendents, principals, teachers, and researchers about what it takes to build positive relationships ...
Never miss a story with The Brief, our free newsletter. We redesigned this tool with more timely data and context to help Texans interpret information about our schools. Independent Texas reporting ...
Research in the International Journal of Consumer Studies reveals that TikTok functions as a powerful tool for shaping consumers' food preferences and behaviors through the use of algorithmic ...
Social media algorithms in 2026 shape what you see, feel, and believe. Learn how algorithms influence behavior and simple ways to take back control of your attention.
Panhandle PBS will use programming, digital content and community engagement in April to raise awareness of senior food insecurity in the region.
MINDEN, La. — Content creator Sara McDaniel is highlighting her work in home restoration, lifestyle storytelling and digital media content centered on Southern design and community engagement.
While building a financial assistant for an SF start-up, we learned that AI frameworks add complexity without value. When I started building a personal assistant with GraphRAG, I carried that lesson but still tried LangChain's MongoDBGraphStore. It gave me a working knowledge graph in 10 minutes.Then I looked at the data. I had 17 node types and 34 relationship types from just 5 documents, including three versions of "part of". GraphRAG is a data modeling problem, not a retrieval
Hi HN, we built a small experiment at Emora Health for April 1.It takes a mean or harsh message and rewrites it into something kind instead.The idea was simple: what if AI nudged people toward warmth instead of conflict?I'd appreciate your feedback on whether this feels gimmicky, useful, or strangely delightful. The science behind this is strong.Write and share something kind with your friend, colleague, team, or your loved ones...https://www.aprilfeels.comThe science behind this:
Traffic on internet-facing systems is rarely stable, as legitimate demand shifts with product launches, user growth, and media attention, while DoS attacks, automated abuse, and protocol misuse can arrive at the same scale and intensity. Reliably distinguishing one from the other without introducing latency or friction for legitimate users is the core problem.Trafficmind treats inbound traffic as a system to be classified and controlled at ingress, with detection being based on behavioral analys
In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.
Marina Abramović's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is Present," she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day ... with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come -- it's tak...
Two people can sit at the same dinner table, share the same number of conversations in a week, and still leave with entirely different feelings about their social lives. One feels connected.
A recent study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that people with social anxiety experience ...
Victory Bay reports a surge in eating disorders among teens, driven by social media pressures and academic stress since the pandemic.
Analysts warn that restricting access alone will do little to fix the algorithms that expose young users to harmful content.
Global Banking & Finance Review has officially opened nominations for Best Islamic Bank for Social Media 2026, an award ...
TL;DR: Dograh is an open-source platform to build voice AI agents with drag-and-drop workflows. New in v1.20: Gemini 3.1 live support, Pre-recorded audio support for lower latency and more natural responses. Fully self-hostable, no vendor lock-in.Hi HN,We’re the Dograh team (YC alumni). While building voice bots, we found that wiring WebRTC/ Telephony + STT + LLM + TTS took more time than the bots themselves. Teams are spending weeks on plumbing - handling call flows, extracting variables,