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Yahoo Opens a Treasure Trove of Research Data
In the era of big data, where researchers truly need massive amounts of information from many sources, more really is more. Extremely big data sets are needed to test out new academic theories and to...
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Here’s What’s Wrong With Algorithmic Filtering on Twitter
Algorithmic filtering of some kind is coming to Twitter, it seems. According to CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, it isn’t rolling out this week, as some initially speculated, but it is almost certainly...
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Twitter’s Timeline Revamp Is Already Set to Hit London’s Commuters
Note: Transport for London seems to have done a u-turn on its decision to scale back the real-time updates it issues over Twitter. It has removed its original blog post, described and quoted from...
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Now Advertisers Can Watch You Watch TV
Last fall, as people around the world stared into their computer screens, the British Broadcasting Corporation was staring right back. The company was checking out the expressions on people’s faces as...
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Is Software Better at Managing People Than You Are?
In December, Cisco csco U.K. vice president Eleanor Cavanagh-Lomas found a way to persuade a stubborn manager to change his approach to a reorganization after getting some fresh insight into how he...
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Algorithms and 3D Printers ‘Paint’ Convincing Rembrandt Simulation
A new Rembrandt painting has been unveiled, which is no mean feat given that he’s been dead since 1669. This painting, however, was not created by the old master himself. Rather, it is the result of a...
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Bot Section Spotted in Facebook Messenger
It’s already strongly rumored that Facebook is about to unveil a big chatbot push for Messenger at its F8 developer conference this week, and now there’s evidence. As TechRadar and Engadget have...
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Killer Robots Need This Killer Feature
The Red Cross is obviously not wildly keen on autonomous weapons at all, nor on anything else that kills people. However, seeing as governments and defense contractors seem determined to build them...
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Facebook and the News: Trends, Filter Bubbles and Algorithmic Bias
The question of how much influence Facebook has over the news that more than a billion people see daily continued to stir up controversy on Thursday. In the latest developments, The Guardian published...
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Snapchat Could be the Next Social App That Is Run by an Algorithm
Algorithmic filtering has been in the news lately, after reports that Facebook routinely fiddles with the site’s Trending Topics, and makes editorial judgements about what to include or exclude. Now,...
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Can ‘Coding Bootcamps’ Fix The Shortage of Engineers?
Most tech executives agree that there’s a shortage of talented software engineers and programmers, but can the so-called "coding bootcamps" that have sprung up in recent years truly help fill the void?...
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Digg Launches a News Bot That Lives Inside Facebook Messenger
When the financial news site Quartz launched a new mobile app that looked and acted like a chat app earlier this year, it felt like a test run for something that might ultimately end up living inside...
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Facebook Algorithm Snubs ‘Black Lives Matter’ Tag, Says Report
Here’s more fuel for the ongoing controversy over how Facebook shapes the news media: A report claims that a tool that helps news sites promote their stories on Facebook FB does not offer a “Black...
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Twitter Is Going to Need a Lot More Than Just a Magic Pony
When a technology company whose stock has been underwater buys a company called Magic Pony--as Twitter just did--the headlines pretty much write themselves. The acquisition, which has a reported price...
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A New Partnership Wants to Stop People From Using Bitcoin for Child Porn
London-based bitcoin start-up Elliptic and the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity that monitors online child sex abuse, will cooperate to clamp down on the use of bitcoin in online child pornography,...
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The 7 Skills You’ll Need to Manage Smart Machines at Work
Dear Annie: I've been following Fortune's recent articles about artificial intelligence, and how it will transform the business world, with great interest. I'm in my first management job, after going...
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Why Getting Rid of Human Editors Won’t Solve Facebook’s Bias Problem
Facebook recently announced that it has changed the way it handles a key section of its website. Instead of being curated and edited mostly by human beings, the social network said its “Trending...
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Facebook Still Has a Fake News Problem
If you spend any time on Facebook then you’ve probably seen them, either in your main news feed or in the “trending topics” section--clearly fake news stories, many focused on the latest conspiracy...
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Google Demotes Holocaust Denial and Hate Sites in Update to Algorithm
In recent months, Google has confronted a new and unsettling trend: Its top search results for questions about the Holocaust lead to neo-Nazi sites while queries about different ethnic groups direct...
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The World’s Biggest Hedge Fund is Embedding Its Founder’s Brain in an Algorithm
The Wall Street Journal reports that Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund with $160 billion under management, is developing a system to automate the management philosophy if its founder, Ray Dalio. The...
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