Algorithms, particularly in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning, are proliferating in finance and changing how we make decisions. Algorithms have been around for a while in the ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The Your Algorithm feature has been released on Instagram. This feature will give users the option to control the content on ...

Algorithms that respond to real-time feedback and can learn to respond to experimental irregularities can help deal with the complexities of biological manufacturing. That’s the subject of a talk due ...

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Stock Photo by Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images. Over the past decade, health insurance companies have increasingly embraced the use of artificial intelligence algorithms. Unlike doctors and hospitals, ...

It is an irony almost never noted that tenant advocates who support rent control, that is fixing prices to benefit the broad class of people who rent housing. Yet, in a novel legal challenge to shared ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works. Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works. is a ...

Marco Rubio’s ‘Catch and Revoke’ plan could let the U.S. government scan immigrants’ social media with AI to strip visas—raising fears of surveillance overreach and algorithm-driven repression. The ...