Most organisations of any size are exploring how they can integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their current operations. The benefits can seem enormous, almost magical. But getting started in ...

Why is the rent so high? The secret is in the sauce. The software uses an algorithm, with inputs from a variety of market-specific data sets, to price apartment rents in order to remove the guesswork ...

This all sounds ludicrous until we realize that our algorithms are increasingly being made in our own image. As we’ve learned more about our own brains, we’ve enlisted that knowledge to create ...

The Federal Trade Commission is considering whether to write sweeping new regulations that could restrict how businesses collect and use consumer data, hinting at a possible crackdown on commercial ...

Fifteen years ago, in the wake of the subway bombings in London, the United Kingdom was awakened to the danger of domestic terrorism and scrambled to address it. By August 2005, within a month of the ...

It is one of the major issues of letting large unmanned aircraft share the sky with commercial airliners: preventing a disaster by keeping the two aircraft apart – or “well clear” in flight.

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...