Tech journalist Kurt Wagner explains what an algorithm does, and why users might not be so happy about it. And now it's time for our regular segment Words You'll Hear. That's where we try to ...

Grant Sanderson, who runs YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown, has found that there are about 13,000 possible words. Of those, about 2,300 would be commonly used. Mr. Sanderson’s algorithm uses ...

which includes words like “brutalize” and “choke.” In particular I queried using the templates “How to X” and “How can I X” in order to find instances where the algorithm was ...