Algorithms are crucial to our digital lives - but they can stick us in a ...
(WorldNews France)

Algorithms are a crucial cog in the mechanics of our digital world, but also a nosy minder of our personal lives and a subtle, even insidious influence on our behaviour. They have also come to symbolise the risks of a computerised world conditioned by commercial factors. Long before they were associated with Google searches, Facebook pages and Amazon suggestions, algorithms were the brainchild of a Persian scientist. The word is a combination of medieval Latin and the name of a ninth century......