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 ...

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.

So are humans and algorithms mutually exclusive then? Not necessarily! Consider that for many of us, the most familiar example of a machine-learning algorithm is probably the Facebook news feed.

TikTok is preparing a second version of its algorithm code for its 170 million users in the United States, reports Reuters. According to multiple sources who spoke to the agency, the work on ...

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 ...

The best known example is probably predictive policing, thanks to a report by ProPublica that uncovered racial bias in software used nationwide. While we don’t know the extent of how algorithms are ...