You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. In a perfect world, the computer science that powers these algorithms would ...

Nature talks to Peter Shor 25 years after he showed how to make quantum computations feasible — and how they could endanger our data. When physicists first thought up quantum computers in the 1980s, ...

The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem. As a child, you develop a sense of what “fairness” means. It’s a ...

This article is adapted from Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made, out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press. In May 2021, I got a call I never ...