In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have proved themselves to be remarkably useful in helping people deal with different tasks: data classification and clustering, pattern revealing, ...

Twitter recently released its algorithm source code on GitHub, which was met with debate and controversy. The release comes to increase transparency and give users a chance to offer feedback on how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

Think about the last time you opened Netflix. Did you scroll through countless options or go with a recommended title? When you log into social media, do you decide what to see, or does an algorithm ...

Reed–Solomon codes have long been celebrated for their robust error-correction capabilities in digital communications and data storage. Decoding algorithms for these codes continue to evolve, aiming ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.