With tools like OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, even the browser becomes the billboard. The user never needs to enter the ...

Twitter's algorithm appeared to identify whether a tweet was authored by Elon Musk and labeled tweets as "Democrat," "Republican" or "power user." ...

The algorithm year did not arrive with noise. That is exactly why it matters. Because the biggest changes are no longer announced, they are installed, accepted, and normalised. And by the time we ...

A Twitter image-cropping algorithm that went viral last year when users discovered it preferred white people to Black people was also coded with implicit bias against a number of other groups, ...

An easy way to do this is to go to Settings & privacy > Content preferences, and then open the “Unfollow people and groups” ...

If you've ever opened YouTube and seen a talking AI SpongeBob, a looping slime video, or something that feels engineered to ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

In February 2013, Eric Loomis was found driving a car that had been used in a shooting. He was arrested, and pleaded guilty to eluding an officer. In determining his sentence, a judge looked not just ...

Take a slice of cake and cut it in two. Eat one half, and let a friend scoff the other. Your blood-sugar levels will both spike, but to different degrees depending on your genes, the bacteria in your ...