Governments use algorithms to select, advise or profile citizens, and to assess risks. But how do you know whether such an algorithm is fair? The Dutch standards body NEN has published the NTA for ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Cryptography is the art of encrypting and decrypting data. Encryption is the process of encoding unencrypted data, or plaintext, into encrypted data, or ciphertext, to disguise the data and make it ...

Over the past decade, health insurance companies have increasingly embraced the use of artificial intelligence algorithms. Unlike doctors and hospitals, which use AI to help diagnose and treat ...

Google's search algorithm determines what most people -- and probably you -- see when browsing the web. Google is the most popular search engine with more than 80% of the market share, followed by ...