If you spawned at the Lake Base in Valhalla during the Halo 3 beta, you were as good as dead. You could hardly get out onto the digitized field of battle without taking a rocket to the chest or a …
Cambridge Analytica was a little-known British political consulting firm when it catapulted to prominence in 2016, credited with being part of the digital strategies that resulted in the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union… and Donald Trump being …
In the tense opening scene of the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise film Minority Report a handful of police officers race desperately to track down a murderer and arrest him… before the actual murder occurs. PreCrime, the name of the unit responsible …
You’re shopping on Amazon and heading for checkout when you see the note in your shopping cart: “To qualify for FREE Shipping, add $10.91 of eligible items.” And who doesn’t want FREE shipping? You head back to the homepage to …
Although you might feel like you have some right to information about yourself, in a legal sense just about any type of data that can be collected about you without invading your personal space is fair game. Online click-through agreements …
In Thailand on his summer break in January of 2018, Australian university student Nathan Ruser couldn’t quite distract himself completely from his studies. An international security and Middle East studies student at Australian National University in Canberra, Ruser found himself …
If you become a data scientist, sooner or later you are going to find yourself facing questions of ethics and morality surrounding the work you do with massive datasets. The very feature of broad, deep, insightful data analysis that makes …
Big Data has meant big money for many people in the technology industry, but nowhere is bigger than the Forbe’s Billionaire list. An increasing number of tech industry titans have made it on the list largely through their investments in …
The petrochemical industry might not be the first to come to mind when you think about massive data stores, but there’s a lot of geographic and geologic data constantly being collected by the likes of Chevron and BP, which means …
The recent emphasis on data science that has swept over almost every industry has resulted in a lot of fascinating insights and stories being uncovered. The companies that are signing the big paychecks that data scientists are cashing in on …