Educate Nevada Now, an advocacy group, contends the state’s intent was clearly to decide how many students it wants to serve and use the secret algorithm to allow them to meet that need and nothing ...

Rents across the country have skyrocketed thanks in part to a rental algorithm called YieldStar that takes the human element out of housing and hikes prices on behalf of landlords — a handy tool for ...

Social media algorithms are complex sets of rules and calculations used by social media platforms to prioritize content in users’ feeds. They are like the invisible puppeteers behind the scenes, ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Amazon, the behemoth online retailer, used a secret algorithm called “Project Nessie” to determine how much to raise prices in a manner in which competitors would follow, according to a lawsuit filed ...

Amazon made more than $1 billion in excess profits by employing a secret algorithm codenamed “Project Nessie” that inflated prices, according to newly unredacted portions of the Federal Trade ...

Nevada is using a secret algorithm to determine which students are considered at-risk enough to warrant additional education funding, raising concerns about transparency. Developed for the state of ...