Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Stock futures point to losses at the start of an earnings-packed week, and oil prices are up again overnight after President Trump said he wouldn’t send envoys for talks with Iran. At least one corner ...

Bio-inspired optimisation algorithms draw upon mechanisms observed in nature to address complex global optimisation tasks. These methods harness principles such as genetic evolution, swarm ...

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

A learning algorithm is a mathematical framework or procedure that calculates the best output given a particular set of data. It does this by updating the calculation based on the difference between ...

How machine intelligence changes the rules of business by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In 2019, just five years after the Ant Financial Services Group was launched, the number of consumers using ...

At the Strategist, we’ve spent a lot of time searching for adult backpacks (though some of us feel strongly that they are never, ever okay). That has led us to the best travel backpacks, laptop ...