Learn how recommendation algorithms, streaming recommendations, and social media algorithms use content recommendation ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...

Social media platforms are more than just tools for sharing cat videos or keeping up with friends—they're powerful influencers of public opinion. The algorithms that drive these platforms determine ...

When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual ...

Graphs are everywhere. In discrete mathematics, they are structures that show the connections between points, much like a ...

Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works. Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works. is a ...

The algorithm, used since the 2010s, violates both European privacy rules and French anti-discrimination laws, argue the 15 groups involved in the case, including digital rights group La Quadrature du ...

Predictive algorithms help retailers leverage historical data and trend analysis to forecast future product demand with greater accuracy. Retailers forecast ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...