Personalized algorithms can quietly limit what people explore while making them feel more certain they understand a topic.

Algorithms are increasingly used by both public bodies and private companies to analyze voluminous data and make informed decisions. Their effects are perhaps most visible in baseball, where they have ...

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Today’s young adults are the first generation to grow up entirely within a digital world shaped by algorithms. According to Pew Research, 84% of U.S. young adults (ages 18 to 29) use at least one ...

"They'll usually be embarrassingly wrong." Homeowner makes surprising discovery after opening utility company's flawed letter ...

An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine. In 16.6 days, it estimated, ...

Six-plus years ago, social media marketing was simple. You posted your content, and if your audience were online at that time or a few hours later, they would see the post. The social media world was ...

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 ...

It was October 2021, and Imane, a 44-year-old mother of three, was still in pain from the abdominal surgery she had undergone a few weeks earlier. She certainly did not want to be where she was: ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

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 ...