Tlaib says grocery giants are tracking what you buy, when you shop, even what device you use, and feeding it into algorithms to quietly raise prices.

The way an algorithm update “rolls out” doesn’t always mean you will see a pronounced negative impact scythe through your traffic like an Old Testament plague of locusts.

Late last year, the Justice Department joined the growing list of agencies to discover that algorithms don’t heed good intentions. An algorithm known as PATTERN placed tens of thousands of ...

Trend-following hedge funds use computer algorithms to identify patterns in asset prices, and then ride them up or down. The ...

“I’ve always been uncomfortable with the notion of the crime pattern as a basis for routine law enforcement action,” he says. Accountability of the algorithm and the effects The department ...