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The navigation tool has placed a school in the sea, among other things.

Tracking project establishes northern Argentina is wintering ground of Swainson’s hawks

This is how data harvesting really works. You’re not going to like it.

The future of health care is high tech. That’s good news — mostly.

What does your phone know about you?

Companies refer to like-minded strangers when recommending products to you.

The technology is poised to change how many companies operate.

Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”

The famed science fiction author coined the term “cyberspace” before it existed.

How activism has led to better data regarding police brutality.

Where is your data now? Follow the money.

The person whose phone was affected would have been given no indication that others were eavesdropping.

Dear millennials. Ask for a raise. Every single year.

The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.

Despite incredible economic growth, it is not necessarily an investor’s paradise.

NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains how an accidental discovery led to the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.

A tech-minded approach to drug fraud could squash those who enable the deadly opioid crisis.

Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.

It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.

Detailed (and beautiful) information on 57 million crop fields across the U.S. and Europe are now available online.

Can algorithms use collective knowledge to make us all internet explorers?

A new report from Bloomberg describes how Chinese subcontractors secretly inserted microchips into servers that wound up in data centers used by nearly 30 American companies.

Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter.

Artificial intelligence has the capability to far surpass our intelligence in a relatively short period of time, but we have to lay the right groundwork now while we still can.

A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.

Recent research shows that suicidal behavior is a social contagion that spreads through families and classrooms. The good news? So does suicide prevention.

The Internet is all shadows and mirrors—but what if it were the central source of truth? Thanks to Blockchain technology, it’s a future that’s possible.

We tell Google things we wouldn’t tell our loved ones, or even our own doctors.