We are just starting to understand the effects that algorithms have on our lives. But their environmental impact may be even greater, demanding public scrutiny. Victor Galaz and colleagues present a ...

ICCL senior fellow Dr Johnny Ryan said the draft code underwent a ‘dangerous u-turn’ by no longer addressing recommender systems. A new draft of Ireland’s online safety code has been criticised for ...

The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates ‘a universe no one fully understands’ The 18th of March 2018, was the day ...

Error-correcting codes address the fundamental challenge of transmitting information reliably over noisy channels by embedding structured redundancy into data streams. Classical algebraic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Disclaimer: I just spent 10 days in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, where I met visionary ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Pseudo-code is a simple way of describing a set of instructions in a manner that resembles a programming language. In an algorithm, most processes fall into three main categories: When pseudo-code is ...