In rock-paper-scissors, the ideal strategy is simple: You should play a random move each round, choosing all three ...

A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms. Tech critics’ least favorite law ...

Joshua Blumenstock is a Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Emily Aiken is a PhD ...

Online betting used to feel like a sealed box. A result appeared on the screen, a balance went up or down, and everything in between lived inside a random number generator that only the operator could ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...