big data

China’s efforts to purge its government of CIA moles has been aided significantly by a massive database of personnel…

Microsoft’s underwater Northern Isles data center has risen again from the ocean depth, the company announced on…

Data analytics company Palantir—the firm co-founded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel most notorious for its work…

Palantir, the surveillance firm founded by conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, has landed a contract with the feds…

Google’s $2.1 billion deal to acquire fitness tracker manufacturer Fitbit has attracted the attention of antitrust…

January 2019 is nearly over and—for now—so is the month-plus federal government shutdown that blanketed national…

The devil is in the downloads, says Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. In a recen…

Mark Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, fresh off of not apologizing for the social media giant’s failure to prevent sketchy…

Facebook held an open meeting at 10am Tuesday morning in Menlo Park. The whole company was invited to gather and ask…

Facebook has booted Cambridge Analytica, a data firm once hired by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and its…

The Pentagon accidentally left at least 1.8 billion publicly accessible posts it scraped from social media sites,…

In the summer of 2015, Alexandra Franco got a letter in the mail from a company she had never heard of called…

We rarely stop to think of just how many people the world’s airlines transport on any given day, never mind form a…

An Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) investigation just revealed an awfully Orwellian fact: the FBI is working…

Wikipedia is a voluntary organization dedicated to the noble goal of decentralized knowledge creation. But as the…

Do you work for a big company? Have you been having back pain? Your company probably knows about it already thanks…

Police departments, like everyone else, would like to be more effective while spending less. Given the tremendous…

What if you knew exactly what to say over email to get someone to like you? When to insert a smiley face, when to…

We know less about the deep ocean than we do about the surface of Mars. But if we want to really understand how…