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In 1983, at the height of the Cold War, just one man stood between an algorithm and the outbreak of nuclear war. Stanislav Petrov, a colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty in a secret ...

n her 2016 cautionary best-seller, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” Cathy O’Neil tells the story of Sarah Wysocki, a popular and by all accounts successful teacher in Washington, D.C. In 2009, her ...

The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word in particular is used throughout computing – algorithm. In the most ...

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in ...

In August, a group of Black former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the league claiming its system for awarding compensation for brain injuries was racially tilted. The suit blamed the NFL’s use of ...

Data is everywhere. Companies today have access to more data about their customers and products than ever before. In some cases, it’s an almost overwhelming amount of information. In fact, most ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the early 1900s, Wilhelm von Osten, a German horse trainer and ...