In NBC’s The Good Place, the entire system of the afterlife is thrown into chaos because of one central flaw: The way data about people’s lives is collected and used is completely opaque. Characters ...

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People and companies get hacked all the time. Corporate secrets, credit card numbers, password to your email, your medical information—even your Netflix login might get stolen. But where does that ...

Transfer students often experience a range of challenges transitioning from a community college to a four-year institution, including credit loss and feeling like they don’t belong on campus. At the ...

Fivetran Inc. and dbt Labs Inc., two venture-backed developers of data management software, today announced plans to merge. The all-stock transaction is expected to create a company with nearly $600 ...

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...

Google removed outdated structured data documentation, but instead of returning a 404 response, they have chosen to redirect the old URLs to a changelog that links to the old URL, thereby causing an ...

NorthWestern Energy and Black Hills say they are combining forces to meet the utility sector’s “unprecedented growth.” Two Western utilities announced a merger Tuesday that they said would help meet ...

“High quality, large-scale, fit-for-purpose datasets” continues to be the tagline for artificial intelligence (AI) models aiming to achieve scalable drug discovery to novel targets. While troves of ...

After Meta started building an enormous data center less than 400 yards away from their house, a couple living in Newton County, Georgia, says their water started to dry up. That began in 2018; years ...

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical ...

At this point, most Americans are aware that their personal information is often up for sale. But few would have expected their domestic flight records to be part of the trade. You might think that ...