12 unexpected ways algorithms control your life Algorithms determine whether you get into college, get a job, or get an apartment, and their work goes largely unnoticed. Until they screw up.

The algorithm has let me down; I continue typing with my own fingers like it’s 2017. Day 4 When I open Spotify today, I get a popup urging me to vote in the European elections.

An open letter to the most disappointing algorithms in my life I'm not mad at you lines of code. I'm just disappointed by how little you really know me.

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. In the digital age, personalized algorithms are our constant ...

How algorithms are controlling your life And why you should probably pay closer attention.

For example, there have been concerns about whether the data going into facial-recognition technology can make the algorithm racist.

For example, many algorithms produce decisions with a racist or sexist result because they have been trained on data from a racist, sexist world.

They designed a way to quickly generate black-box adversarial examples that are capable of fooling different algorithms, including Google’s Cloud Vision API.

Colorado’s Division of Insurance has begun crafting regulations under a new state law restricting insurers’ use of algorithms, predictive models and the information fed into them in a far ...