In the world of big tech, algorithms are behind much of what we see online. They affect what users digitally encounter on a day-to-day basis, including the ads they are targeted with, the results they ...

Students have been receiving their GCSE results across the country (PIcture: Getty Images) It’s a big day for GCSE students, who are receiving their results just a week after the controversy ...

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

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That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...

What is The Goertzel Algorithm? The Goertzel algorithm can perform tone detection using much less CPU horsepower than the Fast Fourier Transform, but many engineers have never heard of it. This ...