This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined ...

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Automation can be the key to unlocking efficiency—but what happens when the algorithms at the core of an automated process perpetuate racial and economic biases? A ...

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I’m a natural tinkerer — as a kid I took apart toy race cars and modified them to go faster — and have an unquenchable thirst to peek under the hood to understand how technical things work. That “need ...

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