Algorithms control our lives in many and increasingly mysterious ways. While machine learning algorithms change IT, you might be surprised at the algorithms at work in your nondigital life as well.

WHEN machine learning algorithms that replace newspaper reporters became fodder for a recent episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, it was clear that the technology had gone mainstream. But as ...

COMPUTERS are getting ethical. A new approach for testing whether algorithms contain hidden biases aims to prevent automated systems from perpetuating human discrimination. Machine learning is ...