#Data Mining

Twitter has reportedly stopped the flow of data to US intelligence agencies which is currently delivered via a…

China’s “ghost cities,” where towns are built at high-speed but struggle to find residents, are a well-known…

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

Parks and Rec jumped a few years into the future for its last season, and that jump has mostly manifested in holograp…

As part of Apple's ongoing glasnost campaign, Tim Cook was on Charlie Rose last Friday. Part two airs tonight and it…

So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data (i.e.…

Helmets? Check. Breathing tanks? Check. Hoses? Ditto. Algorithms? Yep: the New York City Fire Department is using…

What if, instead of marketing to a general demographic, you marketed to a specific individual? What if, instead of…

There's been a lot of talk about the NSA and its data-gathering policies. The news sounds kind of scary. But you…

On the surface Facebook is a social network, but those in the know recognize that it's actually one of the largest…

It's difficult to think of an upside to relinquishing your personal data—your privacy, really—to the prying eyes of…

Path faced a privacy flap when it was revealed that the company was uploading users' address book data to its…

Try reading the news today and not getting depressed about the future. We're looking at tomorrows full of climate…

Flickr, the popular photo sharing Web site bought out by Yahoo! some months ago, is now collecting and publishing…