We are just starting to understand the effects that algorithms have on our lives. But their environmental impact may be even greater, demanding public scrutiny. Victor Galaz and colleagues present a ...

ICCL senior fellow Dr Johnny Ryan said the draft code underwent a ‘dangerous u-turn’ by no longer addressing recommender systems. A new draft of Ireland’s online safety code has been criticised for ...

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Elon Musk offered a rare look into the social platform’s algorithm. Experts say you shouldn’t take it too seriously. The move was unprecedented, but this probably won’t go down as a great day in the ...

Pseudo-code is a simple way of describing a set of instructions in a manner that resembles a programming language. In an algorithm, most processes fall into three main categories: When pseudo-code is ...