Instagram will start testing a new algorithm that will choose what content we see first. Tech journalist Kurt Wagner explains what an algorithm does, and why users might not be so happy about it.

Instead of relying on a pre-designed word layout, he made his own word pattern with a genetic algorithm.

In 2012, the word “algorithm” hadn’t quite acquired the sinister overtones it has today. Only a year had passed since author-turned-startup-founder Eli Pariser had introduced us to the term ...

Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly ...

Python Programming Language on server room background. Programing workflow abstract algorithm ... More getty Python is one of the world’s most popular computer languages, with over 8 million ...

The algorithm has been incorporated into Microsoft’s assistive app for the visually impaired, Seeing AI, and will soon be integrated into Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Although a few algorithms are out there already, [Jenny] wanted to make her own using Python. Essentially it crops the image into a circle and then lays out evenly-spaced software nails around the ...

And, of course, Python is used extensively within Netflix's machine-learning algorithms for things like content recommendations, artwork personalization, and marketing.