Algorithms do not comprehend the difference between a child and a combatant hiding among civilians. They analyze probabilities and execute when a certain threshold of “threat” is exceeded.

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 ...

Zeke Turner on the Algorithm Auction, an auction for computer code, soon to be held at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Ahead of the News Media Bargaining Code becoming law in Australia, ministers have put forward amendments, including changes to algorithm notifications. Throughout their battle with the Australian ...

May 24, 2016 09:06:00 'Algorithm Visualizer', a site where you can visually display algorithms and check them with code When an algorithm is displayed in a program, it is difficult to imagine the ...

Ask.com is set to launch a new search algorithm code named Edison. The new algorithm will combine Teoma and Direct Hit, two search engine technologies that Ask.com purchased a few years back, to ...

We previously developed and validated informatic algorithms that used International Classification of Diseases 9th revision (ICD9)–based diagnostic and procedure codes to detect the presence and ...

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...

Twitter has made good on one of CEO Elon Musk's many promises, posting on a Friday afternoon what it claims is the code for its tweet recommendation algorithm on GitHub. The code, posted under a ...

No code, no problem—we try to beat an AI at its own game with new tools In part one of three, we give the cloud a new problem to (heart) attack.