Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...

In the opening scene of a strangely serene YouTube video posted this week, colors slide, merge, and morph on screen. Set to an undulating Steve Reich score, the visuals seem appropriately loose and ...

Google's algorithm mistakenly tagged an engineer from Switzerland as a notorious serial killer, The Sadist, which he shared the same name with. BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 03: In this photo illustration ...

Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the ...

Optimization algorithms lie at the heart of modern engineering, enabling robust solutions across structures, energy systems, transportation networks and automated design. By framing engineering design ...

In the age of fake news and radicalization, the real enemy is not content itself. It's the algorithm pushing that content up to the top of users' 'recommended' lists. That's according to software ...

Building a chemical plant. Developing an airline route. Modeling the shapes of proteins. Each of these actions requires optimization algorithms – the combination of math and theory translated into ...