A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

CATONSVILLE, MD, October 12, 2021 – Airbnb created a free, smart-pricing tool for its Airbnb hosts. But the tool meant to promote racial equality has done little to solve the problem. New research in ...

City of Amman, Jordan—The Human Rights Watch report, based on 70 interviews and an analysis of World Bank documents, found that the algorithm, which ranked low-income families on 57 factors, excluded ...

A report finds algorithms used by many Connecticut state agencies sometimes rely on historically biased data sets. That means automated decision-making in the state could perpetuate discrimination.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...

An algorithm has spotted a nearly 600-foot, potentially hazardous asteroid near Earth. The tool is intended to find dangerous objects in Earth’s vicinity, to allow scientists to better track them and ...

The study adds to growing concerns about the role automated pricing systems play in shaping competition and costs.

How do cancer cells differ from healthy cells? A new machine learning algorithm called "ikarus" knows the answer, reports a team led by MDC bioinformatician Altuna Akalin in the journal Genome Biology ...

Bias in algorithms and unscrupulous tax preparers are among the drivers of bias in the IRS’s auditing Black taxpayers at higher rates than non-Black ones, an IRS researcher said as he provided ...