Democrats in Congress, wary of how unexpected biases in algorithms could lead to discrimination against people, want to give federal regulators oversight over their use by companies. The Algorithmic ...

Algorithms are everywhere. They rule our lives. They decide what we see on social media, which ads get targeted to us, which route we should take to get places. If it used to be The Man keeping us ...

This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. Which public school will your child attend? How severe a sentence will you receive in the criminal justice system? Will you earn ...

That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...

ADELPHI, Md. -- Have you ever faced difficulty in making a decision based on the uncertainty of the future and what it will mean for you in the long run? Army researchers developed online machine ...

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 ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...