I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms for a week, to better understand the lines of code playing a greater and greater role in guiding our lives. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a ...

Wherein our columnist gives up on shopping and lets Amazon’s Personal Shopper dress her for fall. By Katherine Bernard This is a retail review in which I do not leave my apartment. All of the ...

It wasn’t so long ago that Uber started a revolution in work: managing workers—or is it freelancers?—via an algorithm-driven app. The gig economy was born. Its promise was to save consumers money and ...

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...

I listen to a lot of music. In December when Spotify put out its handy tool for measuring how much music you listened to in 2015, I clocked in at 110,000 minutes. By Rent calculations, that’s over a ...

Algorithms are getting bad press lately, appearing in headlines with adjectives like dangerous, toxic and sinister. Algorithms are not new; the concept was described by the 9th century Persian ...

Something is wrong with me, and TikTok knows it. I can tell because its recommendation algorithm keeps providing me with videos that only a horrible person would like. One morning last week, the app ...

Don't ask me why. But as I sat on my bedroom floor, ears ringing with the echoes of my now-ex-boyfriend's wobbly voice telling me he wanted to break things off, I lowered my phone and, after promptly ...