We are all immersed in an incomprehensible abundance of available information, and we can only read or watch or consume some meaningless fraction of it. What we see, and what we don’t see, is heavily ...

(CBS/What's Trending) - Are there too many algorithms determining your online experience? Eli Pariser, author of "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You" joins our Real Time ...

Detecting transient light curves (e.g., transiting planets) requires high-precision data, and thus it is important to effectively filter systematic trends affecting ground-based wide-field surveys. We ...

Traditional study of animal behavior is a slow, and imprecise process, with human observers spending months, or even years, watching and classifying different actions. A team from Columbia University ...

In February, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced a government probe into Facebook and Google. Among the issues to be investigated? A potential “consumer protection concern” ...

The filter bubble is a name for an anxiety — the worry that our personalized interfaces to the Internet will end up telling us only what we want to hear, hiding everything unpleasant but important. It ...

How effective are algorithms when it comes to recommending something as culturally ingrained and intensely personal like food? Algorithms are constantly tweaked and refined so businesses can better ...