Algorithms have taken a lot of heat recently for producing biased decisions. For example, people were outraged over an Amazon.com recruiting algorithm that overlooked female applicants. Should we be ...

ALAN MISLOVE studies algorithms. Recently, his research at Northeastern University, in Boston, has shown that Facebook’s software was leaking users’ phone numbers to advertisers. He has also found new ...

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If you're seeing the same types of stories repeatedly on your social media feeds, you're not alone, and it's due to something called an "algorithm.""It's a series of steps that a computer follows in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Earlier this month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...

In the race to curb the deleterious ramifications of artificial intelligence (AI), governments across the globe are taking stark measures to rein in potential abuses. This comes as President Joe Biden ...

Does YouTube create extremists? A recent study caused arguments among scientists by arguing that the algorithms that power the site don’t help radicalize people by recommending ever more extreme ...

What if tech companies had to release data about how algorithms work and software engineers had to take social science courses in college? Dean Eckles (upper left), a professor at the MIT Sloan School ...

Discover how securities exchanges use matching orders to pair buy and sell orders, explore trading algorithms like FIFO and ...