A team of researchers in the Netherlands has聽developed the means聽to store data at the atomic level. This technique would allow 502 terabytes of data to fit into one square inch. According to the...
The August 24 episode of聽"Babbage", a聽podcast from The Economist聽about science and technology news, reports on an worrisome聽new Russian web-site, FindFace.ru. This website allows you to input a...
Online bullying and trolls are the darker side of social media. Twitter's Chief Executive Officer stated in a February聽2015 memo聽that he wanted聽to make聽it a corporate priority to聽detect聽abuse and...
Yesterday (September 6, 2016)聽saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive聽title聽Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. O'Neil...
Phishing messages typically get 5-10% response rates, but a new system has boosted its rate to 40%.聽John Seymour and Phil Tully, two聽data scientists from the security company聽ZeroFOX, presented...
Last Friday's edition of The Globe and Mail newspaper included a story on聽how predictive聽analytics might help decrease university drop-out rates. Several Data Science companies, including聽聽IBM鈥檚...
What causes depression? Of course, life circumstances such as traumatic events, severe stress or grief play a role, but heredity studies have shown that a genetic predisposition to depression is...
The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnership聽includes tech giants Amazon, Google and its...
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