Mathematician and OKCupid founder Christian Rudder and his team have written an online application that analyzes your Facebook network to predict the strength of your relationships. In his new book ...

Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...

New software algorithms reduce the time and material needed to produce objects with 3-D printers. Here, the wheel on the left was produced with conventional software and the one on the right with the ...

Product innovation is like gentrification: The more you love what it's given you (safe streets and a hip coffee shop; a cool ad-free social media app), the more you wish it would stop right now before ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Seattle-based start-up Algorithmia is a new marketplace for algorithms. Developers can turn algorithms into scalable web services with a single click. Companies and application developers can ...

This week, Google made some major changes to their search engine algorithm, calling the update "Panda 4.0." As a result, many websites were booted from high-ranking search results, but none has ...

MINSK, 1 August (BelTA) – The final round of Yandex.Algorithm 2014 took place in Berlin on 1 August. Gennady Korotkevich from Gomel has won the contest for the second time consecutive, BelTA learnt ...

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Timescapes finds words in the news associated with Sept. 11, and weights them according to prominence in a story — not just how often they appear. Sept. 11, 2001, means many things — and conflicting ...

e all remember Clippy, right? He of the friendly, persistent “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” Clippy made sense in theory, but in practice, the office assistant made users ...

On Marketplace Weekend this week, we looked at algorithms in business, tech and all areas of our life. The Internet’s most intimate algorithms may be found in online dating sites and apps. Sites like ...