algorithm

In July 1697, Jacques Sennacques of Lille, France, scribbled off a missive to his merchant cousin, Pierre le Pers,…

The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping…

Algorithms have screwed up in horrifying, hilarious, and unfortunate ways, so it’s nice when one with the potential…

Instagram apparently no longer wants you to see Christmas Day photos on New Year’s Eve. On Thursday, the…

There’s a new app that uses machine learning to mine your camera roll for explicit images. The purpose of the app, Nu…

Amazon is perfecting a different kind of business model than we’ve traditionally known. First, crush an industry by…

This is the second installment of the Living With Data series, exploring encounters with data in our everyday lives.

A few years ago, I gave a talk about how algorithms and social media shape what we know. I focused on the dangers of…

Google is making a rare change to its search algorithm tomorrow—one that has the power to dramatically alter a…

There's a new image algorithm called SparkleVision in town, and yes, it involves glitter. A glitter-coated surface,…

Image recognition algorithms are nothing like our eyes, and here is blobby static proof. These images fooled an…

One time I drove five hours out of my way on a road trip to Monument Valley, only to be devastated when I arrived.…

The new film Algorithm tracks the travails of Will, a freelance computer hacker who "breaks into a top-secret…

If you think drawing in real life is hard work, just wait until you see how tough it is to create art using Tetris.

When you're flying anywhere you can pretty much turn the whole day into a black hole. The airport/in-flight wifi…

If you ever wondered how orange juice can always taste so damn perfect every time you have it, it's because of an…

If you think you're your own person, think again. While you have the ability to make what you think seem like…

If you think you're good at board games, you just met your match. Because a computer scientist has developed machine…

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he…

Some tastes just go together beautifully: lamb and rosemary, tomato and basil, peanut butter and jelly. But despite…