More than ever, even highly skilled workers find themselves being evaluated, rewarded, and punished by opaque algorithms. A new book, Inside the Invisible Cage, investigates. In this excerpt from the ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Algorithms are central to modern mathematics and computer science. They are explicit procedures valued for their clarity, ...

You meant to check your phone for two minutes. Forty-five minutes later, you are watching a stranger’s cat video, and you do not even remember how you got there. That’s not by chance. The most ...

T3 exclusively speaks with Woody Cook about his use of technology in DJ'ing without losing the vital human connection ...

It's only a matter of time before quantum computers reach the point where they can break commonly used encryption algorithms such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman, Diffie-Hellman and Advanced Encryption ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Explore how streaming algorithms, personalization, and the content pipeline work together to power recommendation engine systems and shape what viewers see on streaming platforms. Pixabay, SunnyMuneko ...