Adaptive systems were supposed to simplify decision-making. Instead of hard-coded rules, engineers built models that could learn from data, respond to change, and improve over time. That promise still ...

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

Closing this data gap is both easy and hard. It’s easy because it has a very simple solution: collect sex-disaggregated data.

McDonald's announced recently that it purchased Dynamic Yield, an AI company it will use to analyze customer habits to try and sell them more food. When a hamburger shack is using algorithms to stoke ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. There’s a new beat in town: algorithms. From formulas that determine what you see on social media to equations that dictate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. At the core of this digital economy lie a new generation of electronic ...

When quantum computers become powerful enough, they could theoretically crack the encryption algorithms that keep us safe. The race is on to find new ones. Tech Review Explains: Let our writers ...

“Algorithms are a mathematical equation based on the statistical middle,” says Christiane Robbins, a founding partner of ...

The internet isn't uniform; algorithms constantly pivot based on local laws and cultural habits. In South Korea, for example, the digital world is defined by strict regulations and a very specific ...

“Imagine a scenario in which self-driving cars fail to recognize people of color as people—and are thus more likely to hit them—because the computers were trained on data sets of photos in which such ...