Big data
Harper Reed, Obama's Former CTO, Says Data Isn't Everything
Motherboard spoke to Reed at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam.
Researchers Are Digitizing Ancient Monk Chants Into a Massive Database
“The medieval memory was fabulous for a lot of reasons and this is just another example.”
Edward Snowden Made a Techno Record and It's Probably Going to Suck
French synth wizard Jean Michel-Jarre and everyone's favorite leaker have unfortunately teamed up for a song called "Exit".
An Algorithm and a Super Bowl: How the Cleveland Browns Won It All in 2017
All it took for the Cleveland Browns to go where they'd never gone before was one little bit of innovation, and the guts to make it work—doubters be damned.
Satellite Imagery Reveals that Tiger Populations Could Double by 2022
It’s never been easier to monitor the health of wild tiger habitats online.
What Twitter Avatars Tell Us About Trump and Clinton Supporters
Follow Trump or Clinton on Twitter? These researchers might’ve analyzed your face.
How Corporations Will Use Artificial Empathy to Sell Us More Shit
Facial tics will help streamline marketing in our future consumerist dystopia.
We Asked an Expert if Memes Could Determine the Outcome of the Presidential Election
In 2014, Indiana University received funding to start the Truthy Project, which is dedicated to studying the spread of data and why things like memes go viral. We called the professor in charge of it to discuss dank memes and their effect on the...
Become a Surveillance Tourist with a Live Police Radio Installation
Belgian data artist Dries Depoorter exposes the tourist-voyeur in all of us.
Twitter's New Timeline Isn't About Usability, It's About Tracking Your Behavior
Twitter's algorithm turns your timeline into an experiment and the test subject is you.
When the Robots Steal Your Job, You Can Be an 'Online Chaperone'
While some jobs will become extinct, a host of others will be created in their wake.