Big Data

In an effort to gain an elusive trading edge, some of the world's biggest hedge funds have been snapping up large swaths of alternative data from Fitbits, Rokus, Teslas and employment websites like Glassdoor. Bloomberg reports: Spotting trends and patterns in…

Facebook is set to pay $5 billion to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week as fine for users' privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving 87 million users. The FTC has also fined credit bureau Equifax $575-$700 million for …

Our most comprehensive set of recommendations ever.Introducing Engadget's 2019 Back-to-School Guide As editor-in-chief Dana Wollman explains: "In addition to top picks in 11 categories -- everything from laptops to smartphones to gaming and dorm gear -- we w…

Several brain circuits that identify emotions are solidified early in development and include diverse regions beyond the amygdala, according to new research in children, adolescents, and young adults published in JNeurosci.Previous studies of emotional develo…

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Three top executives at the Israeli start-up MDGo - Eli Zerah, Gilad Avrashi and Itay Bengad, pictured from left to right - are hoping to revolutionize how first responders dispatch to car crashes. Their technology applies artificial intelligence to car senso…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin DigitalTransformation book Amazon.com Back in 1973, Daniel Bell published a pioneering book, called The Coming of Post-Industrial Society.  He described how soc…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Visual display of relevant status data. iStock by Getty/george tsartsianidis Have you ever gone into a Starbucks during a busy time and noticed how the staff shifts role…

New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies to disclose the “true value” of their data to users. Specifically, companies with more than 100 million users would have to provide ea…

Happy Friday, readers. By this point, you might have been reminded just how long the week can be in the wrong job. If you like the idea of being a Google Data Engineer or even a Cloud Architect instead, todays deal might interest you. The Google Cloud Platfo…