PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — When Professor Patrick Kelly asked two dozen college students how effective sports-betting companies have been at targeting them with advertising, several hands shot up.

Any views or opinions expressed in this column are of the individual, group, or entity who submitted it and not the publication, owner(s), its advertisers, or affiliates. There is a new [March 30, ...

As I’ve been rewatching HBO’s Silicon Valley, my favorite roast of the first season is the incessant refrain that tech is “making the world a better place.” But that isn’t always true, by any stretch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration by Getty Images. Montana has a problem. Not crime. A prison addiction. We can’t stop building them, investing ...

Digital technologies now occupy a central role in social connection, education, commerce, and health care. Yet growing evidence suggests that social media, algorithmic feeds, and AI systems may ...

However, people must first realize there’s a problem and understand how technology can solve it before AI can make a meaningful difference. When things click, it’s always a matter of consumer ...

When a startup struggles, founders usually assume the solution is obvious: more marketing, more hiring, or more capital. But in my experience advising founders, the real issue is usually something ...

To the editor: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is correct in her assessment (“Trump wants a war on cartels. Mexico’s president says he should start by combatting guns and addiction,” March 9). If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a briefing at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City last month. (Cristopher Rogel ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, a patchwork of sanctions, payment failures, and licensing gaps pushes people into piracy networks. In the Middle East, piracy is illegal in countries with ...