ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech ...

Property testing in graph theory concerns the design of sublinear‐time algorithms that, given query access to a large graph, swiftly distinguish between the case where the graph satisfies a global ...

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments.

A “bat-sense” algorithm that generates images from sounds could be used to catch burglars and monitor patients without using CCTV, the technique’s inventors say. The machine-learning algorithm ...

In Dallas County, appraisal values are generated by a computer algorithm. The system is geared to maximize accuracy and uniformity, but it crunches numbers on a massive scale and it may not always ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

In Travis County, appraisal values are generated by a computer algorithm. The system is geared to maximize accuracy and uniformity, but it crunches numbers on a massive scale and it may not always ...