Day: September 22, 2016

IDG Contributor Network: Tech leaders must act quickly to ensure algorithmic fairness

Do big data algorithms treat people differently based on characteristics like race, religion, and gender? Mary Worth in her new book Weapons of Math Destruction and Frank Pasquale in The Black Box Society both look closely and critically at concerns over discrimination, the challenges of knowing if algorithms are treating people unfairly and the role of

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Hands-on review: Updated: Alienware 17

Updated: Alienware has announced pricing for the its newest monster gaming laptop, read on to find out more. Since Nvidia’s latest generation of Pascal graphics came to laptops, we’ve been seeing a ton of upgraded gaming notebooks come out of the woodwork. But while hardware refreshes are great and all, we have yet to see

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