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Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, about the algorithm he created to track a possible serial killer in Chicago. The FBI is investigating the ...

In October 2014, 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy went to a Gary, Indiana, Motel 6 to meet a man she’d connected with through classifieds website Backpage.com. She’d told a friend where she was going, and ...

In 2010, former data journalist Thomas Hargrove developed an algorithm that he hoped could help hunt serial killers by spotting patterns police can't see. He's already put it to use in Cleveland, Ohio ...