On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding ...

Pew Research Center conducted the analysis to examine how often online content that once existed becomes inaccessible. One part of the study looks at a representative sample of webpages that existed ...

In the early days of the internet, drug users flocked to a website called Erowid to detail experiences on everything from Advil to LSD. Today it is a goldmine for academics.

Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of information, spending hours sifting through articles, reports, and studies, only to feel like you’re no closer to the answers you need? Research can ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will ...

Scientists and public health leaders are taking stock of the Trump administration's abrupt decision to pull down web pages, datasets and selected information from federal health websites. Some of the ...

Imagine being able to extract precise, actionable data from any website, without the frustration of sifting through irrelevant search results or battling restrictive platforms. Traditional web search ...

A massive outage at Amazon's cloud computing service disrupted apps and websites around the world Monday, leaving customers ...