Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen ...

Pep Guardiola has transformed the Manchester City team into a footballing machine, demonstrating a consistent pattern of success through Erling Haaland’s explosive defensive penetration and Rodri’s ...

New York City announced a recent effort to end race adjustments in clinical algorithms used by the city's hospitals. Experts say these adjustments perpetuate racist assumptions in healthcare and can ...

Mayor de Blasio at a 2016 crime statistics briefing. The Brennan Center recently won partial disclosure of materials related to the NYPD's predictive policing pilot—a technology that data scientists ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The New York City Council Committee for Technology meeting on Monday was the most attended hearing in the committee’s recent ...

The New York City Council is considering a requirement that all city agencies publish the source code behind algorithms they use to target services to city residents, raising the specter of ...

On a recent episode of the improv podcast Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins, comedian Tawny Newsome aired some grievances about her time at Second City in Chicago. She said that up until at least ...