You might be familiar with the terms "seggs" and "unalive" if you've spent time on social media platforms. They're a part of ...

Other algorithms: what do they do? The purpose of an algorithm is to achieve a particular computing goal. Certain companies, for example, may have a data scientist, computer scientist, business ...

Global News is unravelling the many facets of influence social media platforms have — both offline and on — when it comes to the wellbeing of Canadian youth.

So much of our lives is lived online, and most of us are aware that what we do on social media is largely governed by unseen and unspecified rules. In recent years, particularly since 2016, when ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish ...

Both the fears and promises around algorithms in the courtroom, however, assume judges are consistently using them. Esthappan’s study shows that’s a flawed assumption at best.

However, some of the benefits of automation raise critical ethical questions for the HR world. Unlike people, algorithms are thought to be free of biases. That may not always be the case.

In the world of big tech, algorithms are behind much of what we see online. They affect what users digitally encounter on a day-to-day basis, including the ads they are targeted with, the results ...