Slashdot Items Tagged "algorithm"

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Friday March 29, 2024 @11:19AM Algorithms Can Aid Price Collusion, Even If No Humans Actually Talk To Each Other, US Enforcers Say
Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:34PM Amazon Made $1 Billion Through Secret Price Raising Algorithm, Says FTC
Monday September 25, 2023 @06:30PM Facebook Can Be Sued Over Biased Ad Algorithm, Says Court
Friday August 04, 2023 @03:37PM TikTok's Algorithm Will Be Optional In Europe
Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:24PM Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:17AM NYC's Anti-Bias Law For Hiring Algorithms Goes Into Effect
Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:51PM A Popular Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye
Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:10PM Blitsort: A stable in-place sorting algorithm faster than pdqsort
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @06:20AM Google's Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Will Ruin Your Business
Monday December 19, 2022 @08:24AM Easily Learn To Use Merge Sort Algorithm In C++ On Windows
Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:39AM What exactly is Google's algorithm, and how can London SEO Services
Friday November 18, 2022 @11:44AM The New Google Algorithm Update and Copywriting: Everything You Need to Know
Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:58PM Alibaba, ByteDance Share Details of Prized Algorithms With Beijing for First Time
Thursday February 10, 2022 @02:50PM New Algorithm Bill Could Force Facebook To Change How the News Feed Works
Monday January 31, 2022 @05:43PM Twitter's Algorithm Favors the Political Right, Study Finds
Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:43PM New Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms
Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:43PM Zillow Home-Flipping Algorithm Outbid Buyers, Now Faces Selling Houses At a Loss
Monday July 26, 2021 @04:06PM Police Are Telling ShotSpotter To Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI
Friday June 25, 2021 @10:27PM Blood Test That Finds 50 Types of Cancer Is Accurate Enough To Be Rolled Out
Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:13PM A Hospital Algorithm Designed To Predict a Deadly Condition Misses Most Cases
Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:32PM Amazon's Cost Saving Routing Algorithm Makes Drivers Walk Into Traffic
Friday April 09, 2021 @06:46PM Research Says Facebook's Ad Algorithm Perpetuates Gender Bias
Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:01PM DoorDash Drivers Game Algorithm To Increase Pay
Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:59PM Instagram's Algorithms Serve Up COVID-19 Misinformation, Study Finds
Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:02AM Court Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm
Monday December 21, 2020 @05:25PM Stanford Algorithm Decided To Vaccinate Only Seven of Its Frontline COVID-19 Workers, Out of 5,000 Doses
Friday November 06, 2020 @02:53PM Researchers Find Flaws in Algorithm Used To Identify Atypical Medication Orders
Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:14PM Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
Monday September 21, 2020 @12:21PM Apparent Racial Bias Found in Twitter Photo Algorithm
Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:59PM TikTok Reveals Details of How Its Algorithm Works
Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:28PM One Mystery of Stonehenge's Origins Has Finally Been Solved
Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:16PM The Record Industry Is Going After Parody Songs Written By an Algorithm
Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:02PM Musk Says Tesla Is 'Very Close' To Developing Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:02AM Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:41PM Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers To Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:40PM ACLU Sues To End ICE's Rigged Algorithms That Keep Immigrants In Jail
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:01PM Facebook Trains An AI To Navigate Without Needing a Map
Friday January 17, 2020 @08:05PM An Algorithm That Learns Through Rewards May Show How Our Brain Does Too
Friday January 17, 2020 @10:31AM Toshiba Touts Algorithm That's Faster Than a Supercomputer
Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:18PM Ask Slashdot: How Much Faster Is an ASIC Than a Programmable GPU?
Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:49PM Google Is Putting An Algorithmic Audio News Feed On Its Assistant
Monday November 18, 2019 @05:08PM The Men Who Try to Hack Tinder To Score Hotter Women
Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:04PM Google's Network Congestion Algorithm Isn't Fair, Researchers Say
Monday October 28, 2019 @10:18AM Hospital Algorithms Are Biased Against Black Patients, New Research Shows
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:41PM A Face-Scanning Algorithm Increasingly Decides Whether You Deserve the Job
Friday October 18, 2019 @05:43PM DeepMind AI Beats Humans At Deciphering Damaged Ancient Greek Tablets
Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:44PM YouTube Removes Videos of Robots Fighting For 'Animal Cruelty'
Friday August 16, 2019 @03:16PM The Algorithms That Detect Hate Speech Online Are Biased Against Black People
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:40PM Researchers Demonstrate Two-Track Algorithm For Detecting Deepfakes
Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:45AM Bitcoin Mining On an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 Seconds Per Hash
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @04:16PM Google Tweaked Algorithm After Rise In US Shootings
Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:31AM How To Evaluate Computers That Don't Quite Exist
Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:55AM Scientists Use Sound To See Around Corners
Monday June 17, 2019 @05:41PM New Deepfake Algorithm Allows You To Text-Edit the Words of a Speaker In a Video
Friday May 24, 2019 @02:53PM An Algorithm May Decide Who Gets Suicide Prevention
Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:06PM Scientists Create Mind-Controlled Hearing Aid That Allows the Wearer To Focus On Particular Voices
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @03:47PM Microsoft Open-Sources a Crucial Algorithm Behind Its Bing Search Services
Friday May 10, 2019 @04:55PM Facebook's AI Algorithms Accused of Generating Terror Content
Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:40PM Engineers Develop Colorful Printed Patch That Hides People From AI
Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:34PM The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives
Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:39AM A New Bill Would Force Companies To Check Their Algorithms For Bias
Monday April 01, 2019 @06:14PM LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:58PM Warner Music Signs Record Deal With an Algorithm
Friday March 22, 2019 @04:09PM MIT Develops Algorithm To Accelerate Neural Networks By 200x
Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:47PM Musician Creates a Million-Hour Song Based On the Number Pi
Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:58AM Quantum Computer Not Ready To Break Public Key Encryption For At Least 10 Years, Some Experts Say
Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:13AM Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm Is Fundamentally Flawed
Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:41PM Left To Their Own Devices, Pricing Algorithms Resort To Collusion
Thursday January 31, 2019 @05:09PM Prisons Across the US Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People's Voice Prints
Friday January 25, 2019 @03:15PM YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations
Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:42AM So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job
Tuesday December 25, 2018 @02:09PM A Christmas Menu Dreamed Up by a Robot
Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:04PM Proposed Regulations Would Allow the Majority of US Homes To Be Bought and Sold Without Being Appraised by a Human
Monday November 26, 2018 @11:50AM Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights
Friday November 16, 2018 @04:44PM Amazon Has Everything it Needs To Make Massively Popular Algorithm-Driven Fiction
Friday November 09, 2018 @11:09AM How YouTube's Algorithm Really Works
Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:13PM Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:10PM We Hold People With Power To Account. Why Not Algorithms?
Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:58PM People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study
Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:53PM Facebook Wants To Use Machine Learning To Make MRIs Faster
Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:15PM New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech
Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:47PM GV, Formerly Known as Google Ventures, For Years Has Used an Algorithm That Effectively Permits or Prohibits Both New and Follow-on Investments
Friday July 06, 2018 @06:27PM Google AdSense Banned a Random Webpage About a 32-Year-Old Bill Because It Was About Sexual Abuse
Sunday July 01, 2018 @04:22PM Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision In Network Time Protocol
Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:21AM Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms
Monday June 11, 2018 @05:59PM Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work
Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:18PM Can An 'OS For Electricity' Double the Efficiency of the Grid?
Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:20AM Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI
Sunday May 27, 2018 @07:39PM Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms
Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:39PM NYC Announces Plans To Test Algorithms For Bias
Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:52PM Parents Can Now Limit YouTube Kids To Human-Reviewed Channels and Recommendations
Monday April 23, 2018 @04:28PM Algorithm Automatically Spots 'Face Swaps' In Videos
Friday March 23, 2018 @10:56PM School Pays To Get an Algorithm To Scan Students' Social Media For Threats and Suicide Risks Posts
Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:14PM Instagram Will Show More Recent Posts Due To Algorithm Backlash
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:53PM Hospitals May Turn To Algorithms To Fight Fatal Infections
Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:25PM Researchers Are Developing An Algorithm That Makes Smartphones Child-Proof
Monday February 05, 2018 @11:13PM Senator Warns YouTube Algorithm May Be Open To Manipulation By 'Bad Actors'
Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:09PM Software 'No More Accurate Than Untrained Humans' At Predicting Recidivism
Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:14PM Google Search Will Start Ranking Faster Mobile Pages Higher In July
Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:38AM New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms
Monday December 18, 2017 @05:33PM Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares
Monday October 30, 2017 @07:56PM Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans
Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:24AM Amazon 'Reviewing' Its Website After It Suggested Bomb-Making Items
Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:09PM Google Researchers Made An Algorithm To Delete Watermarks From Photos
Friday August 11, 2017 @02:11PM MIT Team's School-Bus Algorithm Could Save $5M and 1M Bus Miles
Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:36PM Uber Drivers Gang Up To Cause Surge Pricing, Research Says
Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:21PM Google Enters Race For Nuclear Fusion Technology
Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:59PM Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases
Tuesday April 25, 2017 @11:35AM Google Looks at People As it Pledges To Fight Fake News and 'Offensive' Content
Monday April 24, 2017 @04:10PM Lyrebird Claims It Can Recreate Anyone's Voice Based On Just a 1 Minute Sample
Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:30PM The Dark Secret At the Heart of AI
Monday April 03, 2017 @08:30AM Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains
Monday March 27, 2017 @07:15PM New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic
Friday February 03, 2017 @10:39AM Facebook's AI Unlocks the Ability To Search Photos By What's in Them
Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:49AM Facebook Changes Feed To Promote Posts That Aren't Fake, Sensational, Or Spam
Monday December 05, 2016 @09:58PM Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language'
Friday December 02, 2016 @05:09PM Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead
Friday December 02, 2016 @04:48PM Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter
Friday October 28, 2016 @11:20AM Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption
Friday October 21, 2016 @03:49PM 43 Million Weebly and 22 Million Foursquare Accounts Stolen
Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:26PM Amazon Says It Puts Customers First - But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn't
Monday September 12, 2016 @07:56PM MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books
Friday September 09, 2016 @04:11PM Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending'
Friday September 09, 2016 @03:41PM Google's DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:41PM Google's DeepMind To Apply AI In Head and Neck Cancer Treatments
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:35PM Researchers Create Algorithm That Diagnoses Depression From Your Instagram Feed
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:17PM 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker
Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:43PM Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report
Monday August 08, 2016 @04:00PM 'Faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:22PM Facebook's New Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Buries Bogus Headlines
Wednesday July 06, 2016 @05:32PM Hackers Can Use Smart Watch Movements To Reveal A Wearer's ATM PIN
Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:38PM Facebook Tweaks Its Newsfeed To Better Showcase Posts From Friends Instead Of Publishers
Tuesday June 28, 2016 @06:15PM The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd?
Tuesday June 28, 2016 @12:37AM AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights
Monday June 27, 2016 @04:38PM Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:32PM Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores
Friday June 10, 2016 @04:39PM Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist
Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:57PM Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense
Friday June 03, 2016 @02:37PM Instagram's New Algorithm That Puts the Best Posts First Goes Live For All
Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:45PM Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women'
Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:47PM Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers
Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:51PM Theoretical Breakthrough Made In Random Number Generation
Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:20PM Uber Plans To Kill Surge Pricing With Machine Learning
Friday April 22, 2016 @10:48PM Facebook Might Finally Kill Clickbait With New Algorithm Tweaks
Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:18AM Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked In New Automated Attack
Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:15PM Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made
Friday April 01, 2016 @08:40PM Uber CEO Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Price Fixing
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @06:00PM MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34%
Friday February 26, 2016 @08:31PM A New Algorithm Could Protect Ships From 'Rogue Waves'
Friday February 19, 2016 @10:38AM A New Technique Makes GPS Accurate To An Inch
Sunday January 24, 2016 @09:34PM Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age?
Sunday December 13, 2015 @01:49PM Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:52PM Twitter Testing Non-Chronological Timelines
Monday October 19, 2015 @08:00AM An Algorithm That Can Predict Human Behavior Better Than Humans
Sunday October 18, 2015 @09:23AM Moscow State University Releases 10th HEVC Video Codec Comparison
Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:42AM An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists
Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:17AM YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else
Friday May 29, 2015 @09:16PM Stanford Researchers Make Photonic Components Faster, With Algorithmic Design
Sunday April 19, 2015 @01:26PM How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works
Thursday April 09, 2015 @02:17PM FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency"
Thursday April 02, 2015 @01:36PM Tesla's April Fool's Joke Spoofs Market Algorithms
Sunday March 08, 2015 @07:12PM Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon
Saturday March 07, 2015 @04:27PM Fujitsu Tech Can Track Heavily Blurred People In Security Videos
Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:11AM Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo
Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:30PM The Poem That Passed the Turing Test
Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:30AM The Algorithm That 'Sees' Beauty In Photographic Portraits
Thursday December 25, 2014 @05:12PM The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing
Monday October 20, 2014 @01:56PM An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man
Saturday July 20, 2013 @12:28AM Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels
Friday July 19, 2013 @09:45PM MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast
Saturday March 09, 2013 @03:57AM How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:12PM BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5
Saturday December 01, 2012 @03:53PM One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators
Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:50AM Stanford Researchers Discover the 'Anternet'
Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:58AM Researchers Develop Algorithm To Trace Malware, Epidemics, More
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @09:47AM Algorithmic Pricing On Amazon 'Could Spark Flash Crash'
Wednesday May 23, 2012 @01:05PM Microsoft Research Introduces Record-Beating MinuteSort Tech
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:21AM The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash
Tuesday March 20, 2012 @01:03PM Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @11:39AM Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion?
Friday May 13, 2011 @06:50PM Algorithm Glitch Voids Outcome of US Green Card Lottery
Friday December 24, 2010 @07:27PM Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law
Monday December 13, 2010 @01:37AM Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants
Thursday October 14, 2010 @09:39PM Norwegian Day Traders Convicted For Manipulating Computer Trading System
Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:24PM Some Netflix Users Have Rated 50,000 Shows
Sunday August 29, 2010 @09:33PM Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs
Wednesday August 04, 2010 @03:20PM Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading
Tuesday July 27, 2010 @06:31PM Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute
Thursday June 24, 2010 @05:28PM Best Way To Publish an "Indie" Research Paper?
Monday June 14, 2010 @09:24PM Knuth Got It Wrong
Monday March 01, 2010 @10:42PM Recovering Data From Noise
Friday February 26, 2010 @09:43AM IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm
Wednesday March 05, 2008 @02:49PM Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize
Monday September 24, 2007 @09:20AM The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms