Irvine, Calif., researchers develop an algorithm to predict final wildfire size based on environmental factors. The hopes are to assist in studying wildfire but also to allocate resources to ...

“The one thing that’s been so interesting about the algorithms project that I would never have guessed is that we’ve ended up having to build algorithms all the time,” says Angwin, who has ...

References to Amazon’s Project Nessie are redacted extensively in the public version of the FTC complaint. The Federal Trade Commission's antitrust ...

Amazon’s secret pricing algorithm, codenamed “Project Nessie,” may have generated the company more than $1 billion in extra profits, according to new details released from the Federal Trade ...