Google helps us think, Facebook finds us friends, and Pandora plays our own personalized soundtrack. It’s hard to say whether the computer algorithms that these services use to anticipate our needs ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have demonstrated how web search engine algorithms can be applied to enhance the protection of critical ...

SIEVE is a new approach to web caching that's simpler and more effective than today's state-of-the-art algorithms, its creators claim — and big tech companies are taking notice. When you purchase ...

Google is getting ready to ship a new tool that could help web sites load more quickly. It’s a data compression algorithm called Brotli that could allow some web content to load up to 25 percent more ...

A big question for Web site designers continues to be this: what is the optimal number and placement of marketing call-outs on a Web page? The self-service and forward-leaning quality of the Web has ...

Google helps us think, Facebook finds us friends, and Pandora plays our own personalized soundtrack. It's hard to say whether the computer algorithms that these services use to anticipate our needs ...