Researchers may have figured out the secret to get people to buy more fresh produce: dress veggies up in black. A new study looks at how the backgrounds of grocery store displays impact the attractiveness of vegetables. After testing an array of colors and neutral shades, they found the best bet is to go back […]

A deep reinforcement learning algorithm can solve the Rubik’s Cube puzzle in a fraction of a second. The work is a step toward making AI systems that can think, reason, plan and make decisions. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future […]

Apartment seekers in big cities often use the presence of restaurants to determine if a neighborhood would be a good place to live. It turns out there is a lot to this rule of thumb: urban studies scholars have now found that in China, restaurant data can be used to predict key socioeconomic attributes of […]