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Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them

Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted…

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Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space?

We live in a world of refuse—not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but…

Daniel Kolitz

5/24/21 11:50AM

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TechPrivacy and Security

Report: Chinese Hack of Federal Employment Database, Disclosed in 2015, Was a Disaster for the CIA

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

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Microsoft's Underwater Data Center Rises From the Seafloor a Grimy Success

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

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Palantir Will Go Public Via Direct Listing, Lost $589 Million Last Year

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

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Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract to Peter Thiel's Palantir: Report

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

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Google's Fitbit Deal Reportedly to Be Scrutinized By DOJ Antitrust Office

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

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Bounty Hunters, Monkey Clones, and the Green New Deal: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

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

Tom McKay

1/27/19 9:10PM

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Head of Russian Orthodox Church Warns Big Data Will Usher in the Antichrist and, Well, Hmm

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

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Tim Cook Takes His Turn to Dunk on Facebook, Backing Data Privacy Regulations

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

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Mark Zuckerberg: I Can Barely Handle This CNN Interview, What Makes You Think I Can Handle Congress

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

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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Be Bothered

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

Adam Clark Estes

3/20/18 5:05PM

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Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica, Data Firm That Worked on Donald Trump's Campaign [Updated]

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

Tom McKay

3/17/18 12:30PM

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Pentagon Cache of Over 1.8 Billion Scraped Social Media Posts Left Unsecured on Amazon Server

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

Tom McKay

11/18/17 2:55PM

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How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition

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

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This Cool Animation Tracks How All the World's Airports Are Connected

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

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The FBI Is Developing Software to Track and Sort People by Their Tattoos

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

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Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, According to a New Study

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

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Companies Are Using Big Data to Discourage Employees From Having Costly Surgery

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

Matt Novak

2/17/16 2:37PM

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The Promise—and Perils—of Predictive Policing Based on Big Data

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

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11/17/15 3:30AM

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Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them

Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space?

Report: Chinese Hack of Federal Employment Database, Disclosed in 2015, Was a Disaster for the CIA

Microsoft's Underwater Data Center Rises From the Seafloor a Grimy Success

Palantir Will Go Public Via Direct Listing, Lost $589 Million Last Year

Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract to Peter Thiel's Palantir: Report

Google's Fitbit Deal Reportedly to Be Scrutinized By DOJ Antitrust Office

Bounty Hunters, Monkey Clones, and the Green New Deal: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Head of Russian Orthodox Church Warns Big Data Will Usher in the Antichrist and, Well, Hmm

Tim Cook Takes His Turn to Dunk on Facebook, Backing Data Privacy Regulations

Mark Zuckerberg: I Can Barely Handle This CNN Interview, What Makes You Think I Can Handle Congress

Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Be Bothered

Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica, Data Firm That Worked on Donald Trump's Campaign [Updated]

Pentagon Cache of Over 1.8 Billion Scraped Social Media Posts Left Unsecured on Amazon Server

How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition

This Cool Animation Tracks How All the World's Airports Are Connected

The FBI Is Developing Software to Track and Sort People by Their Tattoos

Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, According to a New Study

Companies Are Using Big Data to Discourage Employees From Having Costly Surgery

The Promise—and Perils—of Predictive Policing Based on Big Data