TikTok engages more than 170 million Americans with its endless scroll and viral content, but as a potential sale for the popular platform nears, experts are concerned about the future of the app's ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

From the physical world to the virtual world, algorithms are seemingly everywhere. David J. Malan, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, has been challenged to explain the science of ...

Some dating app users say manipulative algorithms suppress the good matches. When tech companies run romance, the truth is hard to grasp. Reading time 12 minutes Last year, a friend came to me with a ...