ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech ...

Finding the right person for a job can seem impossible when hundreds are applying for a single position at once. Many employers have turned to software to whittle those candidates down, but there’s a ...

At its meeting on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were considering a new ordinance to ban an industry algorithm that some say is artificially causing apartment rental rates to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado lawmakers are poised to pass a bill banning the use of algorithms that state and federal officials say are used to artificially hike rents in the ...

Antitrust cases contend that use of RealPage’s algorithm, which lets property owners share private data, amounts to collusion. By Danielle Kaye Imagine a system that lets big landlords in your city ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many metro Denver tenants paid more than $1,600 in additional rent in 2023 because of a profit-maximizing algorithm that Colorado lawmakers unsuccessfully ...

During my time working with tech companies navigating the early boom of AI adoption, I noticed a strange duality. Developers proudly open-sourced breakthrough models one week—and raced to patent their ...

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Beta Bionics iLet ACE Pump and the iLet Dosing Decision Software for people six years of age and older with Type 1 diabetes. These two devices, along ...

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That's become the go-to refrain for why your Instagram feed keeps surfacing the same five people or why YouTube is feeding you questionable "up next" video recommendations. But you should blame the ...