As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms still reflect the real world, which means they can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

The rise of high-speed internet in the early 2000s transformed the global labor market for high-skilled labor. As email, instant messaging, and voice over internet calling (e.g., Skype) became ...

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 ...

Like other cultural industries, publishing is founded on hits. Yet the business of predicting best sellers remains an enigmatic art—the province chiefly of gut instinct and educated guess. Sometimes ...