Clinicians often use a medical test called a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose heart problems. It uses electrodes ...

Every factory manager knows the dread of an unscheduled breakdown. A bearing seizes, a turbine trips, a production line ...

Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

Guest column: For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same. Editors’ note: Welcome to CNET’s new series of ...

Prediction market platforms let you trade contracts on real-world events with prices reflecting the crowd's best guess at probabilities. The leading platforms in prediction markets are legitimate and ...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...