From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a column on the tangled questions of our technological age. “Addressing algorithmic bias is like hygiene,” she told me. “You don’t brush once, you don’t floss once, you do ...

Artificial intelligence, the growth of the “gig economy,” advances in virtual reality, robotics, autonomous driving and the blockchain have all revolutionized our work. But this is only the tip of the ...

As the World Economic Forum concludes in Davos, a familiar irony permeates the proceedings. Under the banner A Spirit of Dialogue, global elites have spent the week debating the philosophical and ...

As the World Economic Forum concludes in Davos, a familiar irony permeates the proceedings. Under the banner A Spirit of Dialogue, global elites have spent the week debating the philosophical and ...