Stories Tagged as
Algorithm
Google moves to tackle those spammy searches
Mar 8, 2024
Users have increasingly complained that the search engine has been overrun by a barrage of low-quality content.
Can human market investors beat the algorithms?
by
Janet Nguyen
Nov 3, 2023
Algorithms are good at disguising their behavior.
Meet the algorithms connecting Trump tweets and the stock market
by
Andie Corban
and Kai Ryssdal
Aug 29, 2019
Here's how and why the stock market responds instantaneously to tweets by President Trump.
Perhaps Congress took "The Wizard of Oz" a bit too seriously
by
Phoebe Unterman
and Kai Ryssdal
Dec 11, 2018
At the House Judiciary Committee hearing with Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Rep. Zoe Lofgren from California had to ask for clarification that Google’s Search algorithm is not a “little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what [Google is] going to show.” She wasn’t the only one that was confused by how Google works. On […]
Some of YouTube's biggest stars say their work is hurting their health
by
Molly Wood
Nov 28, 2018
Is the platform's unpredictable algorithm contributing to burnout?
How tech is finding its way into your beauty bag
by
Erika Beras
Mar 16, 2017
Turns out algorithms are just at good at assessing your pores as analyzing data.
False information on the internet is hiding the truth about onions
by
Kai Ryssdal
Mar 14, 2017
Tom Scocca wants to fight "the darkness of falsehood." He's starting with onions.
For public good, not for profit.
Full interview: San Francisco district attorney on using algorithm to set bail
by
Molly Wood
Aug 16, 2016
Can an algorithm be more just than a human?
Full interview: ProPublica's Julia Angwin on biased sentencing algorithms
by
Ben Johnson
May 25, 2016
Looking at the racial bias of algorithms.
Robot Tastemakers
Mar 23, 2016
"Actuality" visits Spotify to look into the algorithmic DJs that soundtrack our lives.