Big Data

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Smoking cessation medicines varenicline and nicotine patches present similar risks of major cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke, a big data study published today in JAMA Network Open shows. The study has implications for clinical practice, and in the long term, could contribute to lower…

Tencent Cloud opens data center in South America Tencent Cloud has opened its first data center in South America, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tencent Cloud will provide customers in Brazil and other areas of South America with high-quality flexible computing, storage, big data, AI, security and other cloud services,…

Edison, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/24/2021 -- The global affiliate marketing platform market is expected to witness high demand due to increasing advertising and performance management in the forecasted period. It is a type of performance based marketing in which a business rewards one and more affiliates for each customer…

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 703 boy group members, using big data collected from October 20 to November 20.…

Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's podcast, Fixing the Future. Rare diseases are, well, rare. In two not unrelated ways. By definition, they're diseases that afflict fewer than 200,000 people. But because, in the world of big business, in particular big pharma, that's not enough to bother with,…

Last year, the European Commission committed to improving animal health and welfare under its Farm to Fork Strategy. Specifically, the Commission pledged to revise animal welfare legislation by 2023, including on animal transport and the slaughter of animals, to align it with the latest scientific evidence. A commitment to consider…

(Source: Thinking Data) Thinking Data, a domestic big data analysis service provider for the game industry, announced the completion its round C financing worth 376 million yuan ($59 million). This round of financing was led by Sequoia China, followed by Linear Capital, Blue Lake Capital and GSR Ventures. After completing…

The food delivery boom has not lasted beyond lockdown and demand is dwindling rapidly as Korea returns to normal. According to Mobile Index, a big data analysis company, on Sunday, the number of users of three major apps Baedal Minjok, Yogiyo and Coupang Eats plunged 22 percent on-month to 18.25…

London-based biotech startup Baseimmune is using big data and a design algorithm to help develop future-proofed vaccines. The Imperial College spin-off recently announced a €4.1 million ($4.8m) raise to develop vaccines against existing and emerging human and animal health threats including COVID-19, malaria and African swine fever. Baseimmune’s technology harnesses…

In the early morning of September 21, soon after the television networks called a Liberal minority government, David Herle, a Liberal election strategist not involved in the campaign, tweeted, “If I’d known you could win an election with 31% we’d have done it in 2006.” Herle was making a joke…