Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the ...

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“I wonder if we could teach a computer to spot serial killers in data,” Thomas Hargrove thought as he parsed the FBI’s annual homicide reports. The retired news reporter would soon answer his own ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The map is covered with Google map dots, nearly 60 of them, each representing a woman killed, a murder unsolved. A cluster of dots forms a loose corridor along Euclid Avenue, ...

One might think authorities have gotten better at solving murders over the years – what with new technology and methods like DNA testing -- but solve rates were actually better 50 years ago. Today one ...

In 2010, former data journalist Thomas Hargrove developed an algorithm that he hoped could help hunt serial killers by spotting patterns police can't see. He's already put it to use in Cleveland, Ohio ...

The FBI is investigating the possibility of a serial killer in Chicago. In a joint investigation with the city's police force, authorities are looking into 51 unsolved murders on the South and West ...