When it comes to recommendation systems, everybody's looking to increase accuracy: the Netflix Prize was awarded last July for an algorithm that improved the accuracy of the service's ...

You'll find your reset button in your Instagram settings. Open the app, tap your profile, then tap the hamburger menu in the ...

If you decided to reset your recommendation algorithm, your recommendations would still be fine-tuned over time based on the content you interact with. But now, ...

The algorithm, called COMPAS, could single out those who would go on to reoffend with roughly the same accuracy for each race. But it guessed wrong about twice as often for black people.

Darius Kazemi is buying random things — or, more accurately, his computer is. He’s been feeding his Amazon bot $50 each month, letting it buy whatever it wants, and documenting the haul at ...

The first primality tests using randomized algorithms (based on refinements to Fermat’s little theorem) ushered in a new era. Problem after problem turned out to be far easier to solve with randomness ...