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 ...

Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

Now that we know the definitions of both terms, we can summarize that machine learning algorithms are sets of instructions ...

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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 ...

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

Many companies are searching for tools to help them hire diverse, productive workforces. Even if diversity is not the main hiring goal, they may want to ensure they’re not overlooking talented ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

If you've shopped online recently, you may have had this experience: You find an item, add it to your cart, and then when you get around to paying, the price has increased. You can thank pricing ...

As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

“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 ...