Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Tyler Lacoma has spent more than 10 years testing tech and studying the latest web tool to help keep readers current. He's here for you when you need a how-to guide, explainer, review, or list of the ...

Estimating the number of triangles in a graph is a fundamental problem and has found applications in many fields. This ...

When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's "for you" algorithm last month, Elon Musk said the ...

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in ...

Healthcare Algorithms Are Biased, and the Results Can Be Deadly Deep-learning algorithms suffer from a fundamental problem: They can adopt unwanted biases from the data on which they're trained. In ...

Whether we’re using Spotify, Amazon, Netflix or Instagram, we encounter algorithms that recommend content or products to us every day. In 2017 Netflix stated that its users discover around 80 percent ...

A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw affects millions of patients, and was just ...