algorithm

Except the chips were algorithms, and the dealer was mathematics.

He says social media algorithms "prioritise shock, confrontations and adversarial encounters" - or, as many of us know it, "ragebait" - over empathy.

Flighty now pays for a wide variety of private and government flight data from around the world—live air-traffic control, historical performance, airline schedules, weather updates and whatever else can power its algorithms.

Researchers at the University of Rochester created algorithms capable of identifying the atomic features that control the complicated chemistry occurring as nanoscale catalysts transform propane into propylene.

When she got in the game, she says, she was happy to feed the algorithm with memes, pranks, dances — whatever it took to attract somebody’s attention.