We tested the symptom checkers of Ada, Babylon and Your.MD to find out how reliable they really are

Now that algorithms are everywhere, helping us to both run and make sense of the world, a strange question has emerged among artificial intelligence researchers: When is it ok to predict the future…

If your algorithms are smart enough to realize that I was pregnant, or that I’ve given birth, then surely they can be smart enough to realize that my baby died, and advertise to me accordingly — or maybe, just maybe, not at all.

On August 8 I launched dickpiclocator.com, a service that invites you to upload an unsolicited dick pic and find out the exact location…

The controversy that swept up leading tech companies last year over whether facial recognition software is accurate enough to be sold to law enforcement agencies shows no signs of abating. Last week, a group of Amazon shareholders demanded that it stop selling the technology to police, and ...

We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, the link between online drug markets and America’s opioid crisis.

"When neighbors start talking, good things happen." 🏡 pic.twitter.com/YoPUZeBsxu— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 12, 2019

Behold, the curb cut: a wedge cut in an elevated curb to allow smooth passage between the sidewalk and the street.

What if you had a year you don't want to review on Facebook?

Last week, Facebook said it found flaws in the metrics it reported to advertiser...

Green patterns are UX choices that create great user experiences for people while also providing sustainable options for the planet.

For the past two years, food campaigners have watched in alarm as the Aadhaar I.D. system has taken hold in India’s bureaucracy.

TeenSafe, a service used by parents to monitor the online behaviors and phone activity of their children, allowed tens of thousands of accounts to leak online after failing to properly secure their servers.

Many have argued that the use of dark patterns and aggressive persuasion in web design is unethical. But what about from a purely business perspective?

Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

Norman is an artificial intelligence which sees death and destruction in everything.

We just finished a primary election in California, and every day in the past month I’ve come home to 20 or more pieces of mail, almost…

What should Facebook do?@alexstamos nails it. pic.twitter.com/lq2UqALf7C— Aviv Ovadya (@metaviv) July 25, 2018

When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.

Fascinating to read the 1995 "Netiquette Guidelines" (RFC 1855). It was written when the Internet began to be mainstream, at a time where IRC channels, newsgroups and so on where the Facebook and Twitter of their times. Wise words.https://t.co/stOD6Hxl4E pic.twitter.com/Vd8GKw9DKF— Guillaume Champeau (@gchampeau) August 3, 2018

Why #bigdata can do wrong in human centered design. The abstraction can be true but meaningless for any individual human. #data pic.twitter.com/49FRc0StII— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) August 4, 2018

The social network apologised after it showed one user a photograph of his recently-deceased daughter in its ‘Year in Review’ feature; many others had similar complaints

Well… Facebook did it again. #AlgorithmicCruelty pic.twitter.com/pwtNYt6HsI— Eric Meyer (@meyerweb) December 7, 2017

In California and beyond, lawmakers are taking action for the environment. But advocates for people with disabilities say the bans create yet another hurdle to dining in public

A little question is a big deal when it comes to shaping people’s experience with your product. How do we ask people for their gender in a…

Exclusive: Use of algorithms to identify families for attention raises stereotyping and privacy fears

This is quietly a major milestone in tech culture. Linus Torvalds, the leader behind Linux, git, and much of open source culture, reflects on how he’s been hostile to community members. I hope he follows through — that would be his biggest commit ever. https://t.co/1DzeWVRvLe pic.twitter.com/lY5AMxNuPd— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) September 16, 2018

In 1967, the newly formed National Organization for Women staged a weeklong protest of The New York Times and other newspapers. Their demonstration targeted the long-standing practice of printing classified listings in two separate columns: “Help wanted: Male” and “Help wanted: Female,” which of course resulted in the exclusion of women from high-paying jobs and industries. As a result of NOW’s advocacy campaign, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency charged with enforcing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting race and sex discrimination in employment,...

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm.

Doing poor stats and presenting misleading results is not just sloppy, it's unethical. h/t @CarlMoons @deeksj pic.twitter.com/8vzu2zku2g— Cecile Janssens (@cecilejanssens) September 21, 2018