Pricing Algorithms Confront New Antitrust Issues After Instacart

Opinion: Although algorithmic pricing is part of modern digital marketplaces and not inherently unlawful, legal risk turns on ...
Science-Based MedicineOpinion

Lysenkoism 2.0 in action: Dismantling peer review at NIH

A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant ...
The Motley Fool

AMD Just Acquired MEXT to Crack the Memory Optimization Problem. Should Micron and Sandisk Investors Be Nervous?

The technology uses predictive algorithms to identify frequently accessed data and move it between flash storage and high-speed memory in real time, reducing the amount of expensive DRAM a data center ...

New algorithm identifies disease-linked changes in cells without prior training

A new algorithm could drive breakthroughs in understanding cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other potentially fatal conditions ...
Times Higher Education

Writing workshops v algorithms: what we should be teaching in the age of AI

How a simple classroom writing exercise provided an avenue for sharing and connection that moved students beyond AI-style ‘content generation’ towards human understanding My creative writing students ...
IEEE

A Cooperative Evolutionary Computation Algorithm for Dynamic Multiobjective Multi-AUV Path Planning

Abstract: Multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are popular for executing submarine missions, which involve multiple targets distributed in a large and complex underwater environment. The ...
IEEE

A Novel Lane Change Decision-Making Model of Autonomous Vehicle Based on Support Vector Machine

Abstract: Autonomous driving is a crucial issue of the automobile industry, and research on lane change is its significant part. Previous works on the autonomous vehicle lane change mainly focused on ...
The Guardian

Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm

When we relinquish care to a computer, we put lives at the mercy of a flawed system Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A ...
TechCrunch

OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
The New York Times

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his ...
Bleeping Computer

Tor switches to new Counter Galois Onion relay encryption algorithm

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...
The New York Times

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript “Our brains are being melted by the algorithm.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Attention is infrastructure.” “Those algorithms are ...