This guide is designed to explain what an algorithm is and how they are used. In the ever-evolving and vast landscape of technology, the term “algorithm” consistently stands out as a key idea that ...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...

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In the US government’s ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break a fourth-round candidate ...

The reintroduction of an anti-algorithmic discrimination bill comes as the advocacy for a decade-long moratorium on ...

An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education. Credit...Ariel Davis Supported by By Kashmir Hill A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech ...