Big Data

An anti-corruption investigation sweeping across the Chinese province of Guizhou has toppled a string of officials linked to its once-prized big data sector over the last few months. The mountainous southwestern province was one of the country’s most underdeveloped regions and banked heavily on the sector to transform its fortunes…

daily cover story The Harry Potter books transformed her from a single mother on welfare to an author with a ten-figure fortune—but her massive charity initiatives dropped her from the ranks of billionaires. Now, thanks to new Potterverse books, movies, a play, and several theme parks—and despite a divisive social-media…

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual girl group members! The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 725 girl group members, using big data collected from April 18 to May 18.…

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual boy group members! The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 755 boy group members, using big data collected from April 17 to May 17.…

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Josie Ford Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com How the whale crumbles More on the topic of unusual units of measurement, in particular how to communicate the size…

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for advertisement models! The rankings were determined through an analysis of consumer behavior, using big data collected from April 2 to May 2. The Korean Business Research Institute evaluated the participation, communication, media, and social values of popular…

(Image credit: Innodisk) Innodisk launches PCIe Gen5 SSD series for AI and big data demands Up to 128TB capacity and 14GBps read speeds for enterprise data centers New drives support multiple form factors with enhanced security and VMware compatibility Innodisk has announced its first PCIe Gen5 SSD series, targeting the…

In data centers, pluggable optical transceivers convert electronic bits to photons, fling them across the room, and then turn them back to electronic signals, making them a technological linchpin to controlling the blizzard of data used in AI. But the technology consumes quite a bit of power. In a data…

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for singers! The rankings were determined through an analysis of singers’ media coverage, consumer participation, interaction, and community awareness indexes, using big data collected from March 26 to April 26. BTS topped the list for April with a…