Algorithms are invisible pieces of code that tell a computer how to accomplish a specific task. Think of it as a recipe for a computer: An algorithm tells the computer what to do in order to ...

When Christopher Steiner, the 35-year-old cofounder of Aisle50, a Y Combinator startup offering online grocery deals, set out to write the book Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World ...

Mashable's series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. The world in 2020 has been given plenty of reasons to be wary of algorithms.

There’s a new beat in town: algorithms. From formulas that determine what you see on social media to equations that dictate government operations, algorithms are increasingly powerful and pervasive.

Algorithms are one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. An algorithm is a plan, a set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem. If you can tie shoelaces, make a cup of tea, get ...

DW: "The Bestseller Code" describes how you built computer tools, an algorithm, to analyze bestselling books and find out what makes them bestsellers.

That’s because the code Twitter released omitted important details about how “the algorithm” actually works, according to engineers who have studied it.

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...