algorithms

Responding to demands from consumers for “an Alexa, but make it talk even more,” Amazon announced on Wednesday that…

As far as big tech media companies go, Spotify’s algorithms have largely avoided scrutiny. But we’re entering a new…

Last month, Twitter apologized after users noticed that its automated tool for cropping photos appeared to favor…

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

During a study in mid-2019, a team of Facebook employees found that proposed rules for Instagram’s automated account…

Happy Easter, everyone! Or, as I like to call it, “The Day Before I Regret Eating All Those Chocolate Bunnies.”…

We are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of algorithms. Roughly 540 million years ago, the fossil record tells us…

Facebook’s automated moderation tools went wild and targeted tons of posts about the coronavirus pandemic and other…

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials rigged a system called Risk Classification Assessment (RCA)…

The YouTube algorithm is responsible for many a video-viewing rabbit hole—one that critics have pointed to as an…

Google has released an open-source tool, Autoflip, that could make bad cropping a thing of the past by intelligently…

Google’s search algorithm is a powerful thing—the tiniest tweaks can tank businesses, subtly influence your…

A health care algorithm used in hospitals across the U.S. has been discriminating against black patients, according…

The quantum internet is coming sooner than you think—even sooner than quantum computing itself. When things change…

When you log into Netflix one of the first things you see is a list of recommended shows. Sometimes its new episodes…

Facebook and Google could be forced to give up the deets about their secret sauce algorithms thanks to an Australian…

YouTube’s recommendation algorithm doesn’t have the best track record. It’s been caught mixing up inappropriate…

It’s pretty much conservative dogma at this point: Silicon Valley is secretly discriminating against Republicans and…

Ever google something and the results are all from the same site? Google’s aiming to fix that with a Search update…