It is an irony almost never noted that tenant advocates who support rent control, that is fixing prices to benefit the broad class of people who rent housing. Yet, in a novel legal challenge to shared ...

If you want to sell a stock, you check the going rates and market movements. But if you’re a landlord who wants to rent an apartment, there’s a company for that. The rental price of those units could ...

Many large property owners use rent-pricing software to figure out what to charge their tenants. That practice has come under scrutiny after ProPublica produced an investigative report on the software ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...

A New York law requires businesses to disclose when they're using algorithms to determine prices. Uber and DoorDash users started encountering the disclosures on Monday, when the law took effect. The ...

New research from the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of South Florida, suggests that television viewing data can be used to estimate political and social preferences. For example, ...

Jory Denny is a member of two professional societies: the Association of Computing Machinery and IEEE. He is associated with Waymo LLC. The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, ...