Twitter Halts Flow of Information to Intelligence Agencies
Twitter has reportedly stopped the flow of data to US intelligence agencies which is currently delivered via a private…
No One Really Knew How Many Ghost Cities Existed in China... Until Now
China’s “ghost cities,” where towns are built at high-speed but struggle to find residents, are a well-known…
This Sinister Software Tells You How to Craft the Perfect Email Based on People's Personalities
What if you knew exactly what to say over email to get someone to like you? When to insert a smiley face, when to get…
Parks and Rec's Fake Future Facebook Is Disconcertingly Plausible
Parks and Rec jumped a few years into the future for its last season, and that jump has mostly manifested in holographic…
Tim Cook Says Apple Has Never Shared Data: "You're Not Our Product"
As part of Apple's ongoing glasnost campaign, Tim Cook was on Charlie Rose last Friday. Part two airs tonight and it…
Hospitals Are Using Credit Card Data To Predict People's Health
So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data (i.e. credit…
New York City Is Using Data Mining to Fight Fires
Helmets? Check. Breathing tanks? Check. Hoses? Ditto. Algorithms? Yep: the New York City Fire Department is using data…
Bizarre New Art Project Stalks Shaquille O'Neal for Custom "Dunk Rig"
What if, instead of marketing to a general demographic, you marketed to a specific individual? What if, instead of…
The NSA Can Afford To Store Data From Years Of Phone Calls
There's been a lot of talk about the NSA and its data-gathering policies. The news sounds kind of scary. But you might…
NFL fans by U.S. county, according to Facebook
On the surface Facebook is a social network, but those in the know recognize that it's actually one of the largest…
This Case for Data Mining Might Make You Reconsider Your Position on Web Privacy
It's difficult to think of an upside to relinquishing your personal data—your privacy, really—to the prying eyes of the…
Apple's Failure Lets Developers Steal Your Address Book
Path faced a privacy flap when it was revealed that the company was uploading users' address book data to its servers…
Data Mining Software Predicts How Depressing the Future Will Be
Try reading the news today and not getting depressed about the future. We're looking at tomorrows full of climate…
Flickr Knows What Camera You're Using, Is Telling Everybody
Flickr, the popular photo sharing Web site bought out by Yahoo! some months ago, is now collecting and publishing the…