The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much public anger at its perceived unfairness that it’s widely become known as the ...

It's a win for campaigners challenging Home Office use of the algorithm, which for the past five years has been helping decide whether people are granted visas. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and ...

Tonight, MTV stops broadcasting in the UK. After more than three decades as a cultural lodestar for youth, its disappearance ...

A flawed algorithm that determines the social security benefits received by people in the UK is causing hunger, debt, and psychological distress, Human Rights Watch has warned. The model calculates ...

When someone goes missing, their friends or family can provide a photo for police to circulate in case they are recognized by a member of the public. When it comes to longer-term missing person cases, ...

Taking exams is never easy, but it seems that figuring out results with an algorithm is far more difficult. The UK government have learnt the hard and humiliating way that a badly constructed ...

Often it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it that matters. Especially if you’re being sarcastic to a customer services operator. Such nuance is obviously lost on automated speech systems, more’s ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. But this year, it’s very different. The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and replaced with teacher assessments and algorithms. It has created ...