I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms for a week, to better understand the lines of code playing a greater and greater role in guiding our lives.

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments ...

I spend all day making decisions, and they’re not always good ones. Could an algorithm do a better job of deciding what’s best for me?

To train the algorithm, the researchers needed examples of these exospheric conditions with and without life present. In the lab, they concocted brines with chemistry similar to that of Europa and ...

I would attempt to live my life “by algorithm” – using algorithm in the broad, colloquial sense here to mean any set of computer calculations that results in a solution, including ...

This problem is made about a million times worse when the algorithm in question is created for healthcare purposes. Take, for example, algorithms used to decide which patients receive priority for ...