Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...

The Federal Trade Commission recently reached a settlement with WW International, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers. The FTC and Department of Justice accused WW of illegally collecting ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Algorithms are complicated, and each social media platform uses a different one. But, simply, algorithms mean that social media platforms give you more of the things that you click on.

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On March 24, weeks before he offered to buy Twitter, Elon Musk posted a poll on the social media platform: “Twitter algorithm should be open source,” he wrote, with options for users to vote “yes” or ...

Yesterday, Google announced a major upcoming change to its mobile ranking algorithm. In a short blog post entitled ‘Using page speed in mobile search ranking’, it explained that starting in July 2018, ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Dec. 19, 2019) - Researchers working on an Army-funded project have developed an algorithm to simulate how electromagnetic waves interact with materials in devices to ...