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Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now
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Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is using its Android mobile operating system and algorithmic smarts to predict users' wants and needs.

Learning to Apply Data Science to Business Problems
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Learning to Apply Data Science to Business Problems

One of the most exciting parts of data science is that it can be applied to many domains of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost...

It Pays to Be a Privacy Officer
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It Pays to Be a Privacy Officer

Who's your company's CPO? That's chief privacy officer.

Ftc Appoints an Online Privacy Advocate
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Ftc Appoints an Online Privacy Advocate

The Federal Trade Commission has appointed a leading Internet privacy and security expert as its new chief technologist, amid a growing concern for consumer protections...

Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge ­niversity
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge ­niversity

A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...

Google Cultural Institute Puts Viewers Onstage
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Google Cultural Institute Puts Viewers Onstage

Practicing—or buying a ticket—isn't the only way to get to Carnegie Hall.

What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media
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What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media

Let's face it: Corporate America's social presence could use a celebrity makeover.

New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend

Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.

What's Really Hot on Dating Sites? Proper Grammar
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What's Really Hot on Dating Sites? Proper Grammar

When Jeff Cohen was getting ready to meet his OkCupid date for drinks in Manhattan, he started to have second thoughts as he reread the glaring grammatical error...

On the Farm: Startups Put Data in Farmers' Hands
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On the Farm: Startups Put Data in Farmers' Hands

Farmers and entrepreneurs are starting to compete with agribusiness giants over the newest commodity being harvested on U.S. farms—one measured in bytes, not bushels...

Connecting Your Car to Your Smartphone Can Make Auto Data Work For You
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Connecting Your Car to Your Smartphone Can Make Auto Data Work For You

If your car could talk, you might be surprised by how much it has to say.

Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
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Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network

Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...

Palmer Luckey: Making Virtual Reality a Reality
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Palmer Luckey: Making Virtual Reality a Reality

"Why shouldn't people be able to teleport wherever they want?" asks Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality company that Facebook...

When a Smart Home Is Too Smart For Its Own Good
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When a Smart Home Is Too Smart For Its Own Good

At his home in New York, hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager has a "smart-home" system that allows him to remotely control the lighting, window shades...

New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies
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New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies

The leather-bound diaries of a 19th-century high-school principal in southwestern India are helping change how archivists around the world handle email.

Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance

Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...

Facebook, a Big User of Apple Machines, Writes and Open Sources Its Own Mac Os Security Software
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Facebook, a Big User of Apple Machines, Writes and Open Sources Its Own Mac Os Security Software

When Facebook Inc. engineers needed security software to monitor the thousands of Apple Inc. Mac laptops, they couldn't find what they needed.

Data Breaches Boost Funding For Cybersecurity Startups
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Data Breaches Boost Funding For Cybersecurity Startups

Before Max Krohn, the OkCupid co-founder, played online matchmaker, he had a far-less-romantic interest in cryptography. But he couldn't see a way to make a living...

Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials...

What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That
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What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That

The world of education has become a rapidly expanding universe.
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