On April 5, 2011, 41-year-old John Gass received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The letter informed Gass that his driver’s license had been revoked and that he should stop ...

The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like ...

A recent study published in Science, one of the world’s leading academic journals, found that a predictive healthcare algorithm discriminated against black patients. The tool, created by Optum, was ...

Abiodun Ogunyemi has been an Uber Eats delivery driver since February 2020. But since March he has been unable to work due to what a union supporting drivers claims is a racially-biased algorithm.

That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...

All around us, algorithms are invisibly at work. They’re recommending music and surfacing news, finding cancerous tumors, and making self-driving cars a reality. But do people trust them? Not really, ...

If your business lives and dies by Google search engine results — if you at least in part make money based on Google search results — this news is for you. Google just announced it is in the process ...

Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision ...