We know that algorithms can outperform humans across an expanding range of settings, from medical diagnosis and image recognition to crime prediction. However, an ongoing concern is the potential for ...

When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design. Thanks ...

Thanks to computer-aided design (CAD), architects were able to experiment with new organic forms, free from the restraints of slide rules and protractors. The result was famous curvy buildings such as ...

Algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct the buildings and even change them over time to meet users’ needs. Artificial Intelligence Automation When giant blobs began ...

Computer algorithms play a role in many parts of our lives, both big and small: from content that shows up on our social media feeds and search engine results, to the quality of our education and our ...

As people adopt new trends and cultures, algorithms change in response. Brands keeping their fingers on the pulse of these changes can feel obligated to shift their budgets, edit their content ...

"I believe that we can make a better future if we choose it, and in order to choose it we have to understand two things," Tim O'Reilly told ZDNet last Tuesday. "We have to understand that there's a ...