Microsoft announced that it is supporting a digital campaign to teach young people in Canada about algorithms. The Algorithm Literacy Project aims to educate the public on what algorithms are, how ...

Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as "Project Zipline," plus the associated hardware design specs and related source code to the Open Compute Project, the company announced on March 14.

The project launched last month and so far has more than 500 participants who have "donated" data from more than 40 million search results, which adds up to 20 gigabytes of data a day.