Democratic lawmakers are questioning the legality of a U.S. Border Patrol program that uses predictive intelligence to detain ...

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Joshua Blumenstock is a Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Emily Aiken is a PhD ...

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Greystar Management, the largest apartment manager in the U.S., has agreed to halt its use of a certain algorithm program to set prices under a Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed settlement aimed at ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

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