Interviewing the algorithm: How reporting and reverse engineering could build a beat to understand the code that influences us Nick Diakopoulos explains why journalists needs to start thinking more ...

There’s a new beat in town: algorithms. From formulas that determine what you see on social media to equations that dictate government operations, algorithms are increasingly powerful and pervasive.

When Christopher Steiner, the 35-year-old cofounder of Aisle50, a Y Combinator startup offering online grocery deals, set out to write the book Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World ...

Algorithms are invisible pieces of code that tell a computer how to accomplish a specific task. Think of it as a recipe for a computer: An algorithm tells the computer what to do in order to ...

Mashable's series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. The world in 2020 has been given plenty of reasons to be wary of algorithms.

What’s the Deal With Algorithms? Your 101 guide to the computer codes that are shaping the ways we live.

The code Twitter released omitted important details about how “the algorithm” actually works, according to engineers who have studied it.