Fry, a University College London math professor, invites readers to examine how algorithms affect their lives. She guides her audience through understanding what algorithms are—“simply a ...

Mashable's series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. The world in 2020 has been given plenty of reasons to be wary of algorithms.

We made our own version of the Codebreaker sign-cracking algorithm — and talked to pitchers about how to thwart it.