New inventions—like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet—can create radical ...

AI is revolutionizing hiring, but without human oversight, algorithms can amplify bias, leading to discrimination and legal ...

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA ...

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The algorithm used past health care costs, rather than actual illness, as a proxy for health care needs—and, on average, more money is spent on white patients.

But the groundbreaking study in Science about bias reinforced to Sendak and Sterrett they wanted to be careful in their design. The team spent a month teaching the algorithm to identify sepsis ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm to force competitors to lower or raise their prices. That's what the Federal Trade Commission alleges in redacted portions of its monopoly lawsuit against the company.

The algorithm, used since the 2010s, violates both European privacy rules and French anti-discrimination laws, argue the 15 groups involved in the case, including digital rights group La ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites and “destroyed” some internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission was ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm code-named “Project Nessie” to test how much it could raise prices and get competitors to follow. The plan is outlined in redacted portions of the government’s ...