The Federal Trade Commission recently reached a settlement with WW International, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers. The FTC and Department of Justice accused WW of illegally collecting ...

Data structures and algorithms are vital elements in many computing applications. When programmers design and build applications, they need to model the application data. What this data consists of ...

Justice is supposed to be “blind.” But is race blindness always the best way to achieve racial equality? An algorithm to predict recidivism among prison populations is underscoring that debate.

To become a Vogue Business Member and receive the Technology Edit newsletter, click here. Posts recommended by algorithms have defined social media feeds for the last few years, bringing both ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Instagram’s announcement that it will be rolling out a personalized feed was unsurprisingly met with much resistance from its user base. Facebook’s transition to an algorithmically driven feed in 2006 ...