Slashdot Items Tagged "bigdata"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:59PM Japan Enacts High-Tech 'Super City' Bill Where AI, Big Data and Other Technologies Are Utilized To Resolve Social Problems
Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:09AM Some Colleges Are Using Students' Smartphones To Track Their Locations on Campus
Friday July 12, 2019 @03:58PM Revealed: This Is Palantir's Top-Secret User Manual For Cops
Monday June 10, 2019 @11:31AM Salesforce Bets on Big Data With $15.3 Billion Tableau Buy
Friday April 26, 2019 @05:52PM Enterprise Datacenter Hardware Assumptions May Be In For a Shakeup
Monday March 25, 2019 @07:30PM McDonald's Bites on Big Data With $300 Million Acquisition
Friday May 18, 2018 @10:55AM Data Science is America's Hottest Job
Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:14PM 'Big Brother' In India Requires Fingerprint Scans For Food, Phones, Finances
Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:27AM China Pilots a System That Rates Citizens on 'Social Credit Score' To Determine Eligibility For Jobs, Travel
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:47AM 'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior
Monday October 24, 2016 @05:23PM Alibaba Founder To Chinese Government: Use Big Data To Stop Criminals
Saturday October 08, 2016 @08:59AM Machine Logic: Our Lives Are Ruled By Big Tech's 'Decisions By Data'
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:52AM Why Data Is the New Coal
Monday September 26, 2016 @10:41AM HERE, Automakers Team Up To Share Data On Traffic Conditions
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @09:04AM LinkedIn Sues 100 Individuals For Scraping User Data From the Site
Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:03AM Google: Government Requests For User Data Hit All-Time High In Second Half Of 2015
Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:18AM Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into
Saturday May 14, 2016 @03:47PM Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:53PM In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers
Monday March 14, 2016 @10:27PM Facebook Preps Its Infrastructure For a Virtual Reality Future
Friday March 11, 2016 @06:22PM HPE's Haven OnDemand Offers 'Machine Learning As a Service'
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:49PM There's No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity
Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:39PM Seagate Debuts World's Fastest NVMe SSD With 10GBps Throughput
Sunday March 06, 2016 @01:02PM Crossword Database Analysis Spots What Looks Like Plagiarism
Saturday March 05, 2016 @08:19PM Hundreds of Hackers Celebrate Open Data Day
Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:28AM Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:29AM Google-Backed SSD Endurance Research Shows MLC Flash As Reliable As SLC
Friday February 26, 2016 @09:46AM Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers
Friday February 12, 2016 @10:11AM UCL Scientists Push 1.125Tbps Through a Single Coherent Optical Receiver
Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:56AM Startup Uses Sensor Networks To Debug Science Experiments
Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:41PM How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money
Monday February 01, 2016 @02:51PM How To Build a TimesMachine
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:45AM Hunting Malware With GPUs and FPGAs
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:05AM Uber Scaling Up Its Data Center Infrastructure
Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:36PM Panasonic To Commercialize Facebook's Blu-Ray Cold Storage Systems
Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:25AM Over 650 TB of Data Up For Grabs From Publicly Exposed MongoDB Database
Monday October 19, 2015 @08:00AM An Algorithm That Can Predict Human Behavior Better Than Humans
Friday October 16, 2015 @06:44PM How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data
Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:19AM Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate
Thursday October 08, 2015 @10:09AM Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks
Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:47AM Tracing the Limits of Computation
Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:53PM An AI Hunts the Wild Animals Carrying Ebola
Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:22PM The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything
Monday August 31, 2015 @07:24PM World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light
Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:42AM UNC Scientists Open Source Their Genomic Research
Friday August 21, 2015 @06:42PM Object Storage and POSIX Should Merge
Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:20PM Oracle To Debut Low-Cost SPARC Chip Next Month
Saturday July 25, 2015 @09:15AM Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?)
Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:33PM As Cloud Growth Booms, Server Farms Get Super-Sized
Monday June 15, 2015 @03:46AM Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival
Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:32PM NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set
Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:41AM A Tool For Analyzing H-1B Visa Applications Reveals Tech Salary Secrets
Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:04PM Making the World's Largest Panoramic Photo
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:03AM Forecasting the Next Pandemic
Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:41AM Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism
Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:24PM OSGeo Foundation Up In Arms Over ESRI LAS Lock-In Plans
Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:30PM Kludgey Electronic Health Records Are Becoming Fodder For Malpractice Suits
Friday April 10, 2015 @06:38PM How Flight Tracking Works: a Global Network of Volunteers
Saturday March 21, 2015 @01:51PM A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @08:51AM When Chess Players Blunder
Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:11AM Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo
Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:43PM Spire Plans To Use Tiny Satellites For More Accurate Weather Forecasts
Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:57AM Feds Operated Yet Another Secret Metadata Database Until 2013
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:41AM Meet Flink, the Apache Software Foundation's Newest Top-Level Project
Monday December 29, 2014 @01:59PM 2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack
Thursday December 25, 2014 @11:04PM Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages
Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:19PM 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City
Friday November 14, 2014 @03:27PM Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia
Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:09PM Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills
Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:49AM How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth
Friday November 07, 2014 @09:39PM Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Data Warehouse Server System?
Thursday October 23, 2014 @08:43AM Machine Learning Expert Michael Jordan On the Delusions of Big Data
Friday October 17, 2014 @06:26PM The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google
Friday October 17, 2014 @01:16PM Making Best Use of Data Center Space: Density Vs. Isolation
Monday October 13, 2014 @10:26AM Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail?
Monday October 13, 2014 @01:59AM Your Typing Style Is Now, Or Could Soon Be, Big Data
Monday October 13, 2014 @01:57AM Your typing style is now, or could soon be, big data
Thursday October 02, 2014 @07:37AM Laying the Groundwork For Data-Driven Science
Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:17PM Artificial General Intelligence That Plays Video Games: How Did DeepMind Do It?
Monday September 08, 2014 @10:12AM Getting Into College the Old Fashioned Way: With Money
Sunday August 24, 2014 @11:23AM Sources Say Amazon Will Soon Be Targeting Ads, a la Google AdWords
Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:04PM Better Living Through Data
Monday July 28, 2014 @10:52AM Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs
Saturday July 26, 2014 @03:29PM Apple Acquires "Pandora For Books" Booklamp For $15 Million
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:06AM IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution
Thursday July 03, 2014 @10:22AM Ask Slashdot: Switching From SAS To Python Or R For Data Analysis and Modeling?
Sunday June 29, 2014 @10:30PM Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm?
Friday June 27, 2014 @02:47PM Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year
Monday June 23, 2014 @07:01PM Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips
Friday June 06, 2014 @07:05PM 'Pop-Up' Bus Service Learns Boston Riders' Rhythms, Creates Routes Accordingly
Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:40AM AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud
Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:22AM How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets
Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:26AM The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net
Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:37AM EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:18AM Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy
Saturday May 03, 2014 @04:25PM Opting Out of Big Data Snooping: Harder Than It Looks
Friday April 25, 2014 @10:32AM Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies
Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:54PM London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been
Saturday April 05, 2014 @12:31PM Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future
Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:26PM Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs
Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:16PM Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs File-System
Saturday March 22, 2014 @06:34PM Spinoffs From Spyland: How Some NSA Technology Is Making Its Way Into Industry
Thursday March 13, 2014 @05:49PM Google Flu Trends Gets It Wrong Three Years Running
Saturday March 08, 2014 @04:10PM Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying
Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:26AM Spark Advances From Apache Incubator To Top-Level Project
Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:55AM New Encryption Scheme Could Protect Your Genome
Tuesday February 11, 2014 @09:15AM Can Commercial Storage Services Handle the NSA's Metadata?
Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:47PM Federal Agency Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Credit Card Accounts
Monday January 20, 2014 @12:22PM A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy
Thursday December 26, 2013 @11:23AM Ask Slashdot: How To Build a Morse Code Audio Library For Machine Learning?
Thursday December 26, 2013 @09:27AM E-Books That Read You
Friday December 20, 2013 @07:25PM Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims
Friday December 20, 2013 @06:57PM Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data
Tuesday December 17, 2013 @12:31PM Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat
Sunday December 15, 2013 @12:35AM Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US
Saturday December 14, 2013 @05:55PM Boston Police Stop Scanning Registration Plates, For Now
Tuesday December 10, 2013 @12:33PM AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things'
Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:19AM NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide
Monday December 02, 2013 @09:25PM How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape
Saturday November 30, 2013 @06:53PM 270 Million Android Users In China
Saturday November 30, 2013 @02:28PM Google Supercomputers Tackle Giant Drug-Interaction Data Crunch
Sunday November 17, 2013 @11:22AM Rigging Up Baby
Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:28AM MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US
Saturday October 12, 2013 @01:24PM Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia
Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:56PM NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns
Friday October 04, 2013 @02:21PM India's Billion User Biometric Odyssey
Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:52AM Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks
Thursday August 15, 2013 @08:18AM Twitter Buzz As an Election Predictor
Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:29AM Losing the War Data For Iraq and Afghanistan
Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:22AM There Is a Fly In My Tweet: Tracking Food-Borne Illness the Crowd-Sourced Way
Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:35AM Using Zillow's Creative Commons Neighborhood Boundary Data For the U.S.
Thursday July 25, 2013 @08:59AM Supercomputer Becomes Massive Router For Global Radio Telescope
Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:59AM ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:32AM MIT Project Reveals What PRISM Knows About You
Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:11AM NSA Revelation Leads FTC To Propose "Reclaim Your Name" Initiative
Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:17AM No "Right To Be Forgotten," Says EU Advocate General
Friday June 21, 2013 @07:11PM Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers
Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:26AM Learn About the FRDCSA 'Weak AI' Project (Video)
Monday May 20, 2013 @10:03AM NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:15AM Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety
Thursday May 02, 2013 @11:21AM Even the Ad Industry Doesn't Know Who's Tracking You
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:44PM From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car'
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:57AM Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style
Sunday April 21, 2013 @07:09PM Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa
Thursday April 18, 2013 @12:28PM In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest
Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:35AM NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs
Friday April 05, 2013 @11:01PM Hatebase Tries To Scan For Precursors of Genocide In Language
Friday April 05, 2013 @07:22PM The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are
Friday March 29, 2013 @11:22AM Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK
Monday March 18, 2013 @01:17PM Google BigQuery Is Now Even Bigger
Thursday March 14, 2013 @01:59PM UK Serious Fraud Office Probes Autonomy With ... Autonomy!
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:01AM Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:28AM Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @12:26PM Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy
Saturday March 02, 2013 @08:49AM With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall
Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:54AM Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States
Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:10PM When Google Got Flu Wrong
Monday February 04, 2013 @09:32AM Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events
Friday February 01, 2013 @09:18PM Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul
Saturday January 26, 2013 @08:53PM Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @10:04AM Wikimedia Moving Main Data Center To Ashburn, Virginia
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:40AM Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:25AM OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users
Saturday January 05, 2013 @07:15AM Visualizing Personal Flight Data With OpenFlights.org
Friday January 04, 2013 @08:39AM 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge
Saturday December 29, 2012 @03:43PM Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy
Friday December 21, 2012 @08:12PM USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video
Thursday December 20, 2012 @02:19AM Huge Site Ranking Dataset Donated to the Common Crawl Foundation
Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:46PM How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit
Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:04AM Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times
Tuesday November 27, 2012 @01:02PM Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail
Saturday November 03, 2012 @06:05PM Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance
Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:47AM NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software
Sunday October 21, 2012 @06:10PM Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking
Sunday October 21, 2012 @04:59PM States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs
Saturday October 20, 2012 @01:30PM How Google Cools Its 1 Million Servers
Sunday October 07, 2012 @09:36PM Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites
Friday October 05, 2012 @07:03PM The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users
Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:43PM Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed
Friday September 28, 2012 @08:43AM Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic
Thursday September 20, 2012 @01:57PM Google Spanner: First Globally Scalable Database With External Consistency
Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:26AM How Sensors and Software Turn Farms Into Data Mines
Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:36AM Exposing the Machinery of the Resistome
Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:38PM Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing
Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:14AM Google Patents Software To Identify Real-World Objects In Videos
Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:56PM Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier
Friday August 31, 2012 @08:14PM Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha
Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:48AM Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign?
Saturday August 25, 2012 @12:37PM Ask Slashdot: Best *nix Distro For a Dynamic File Server?
Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:50PM Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws
Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:58AM Researchers Develop Algorithm To Trace Malware, Epidemics, More
Monday August 13, 2012 @11:11AM How Big Data Became So Big
Sunday July 22, 2012 @09:31AM Poison Attacks Against Machine Learning
Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:34PM Apple Expanding NC Green Data Center
Thursday July 19, 2012 @11:03AM Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software
Thursday July 12, 2012 @08:24AM 2 Year Data Retention For Australian ISPs
Thursday July 05, 2012 @02:55PM Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson
Thursday July 05, 2012 @02:03PM Seagoing Servers Hit the Rocks
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:11PM How Satnav Maps Are Made
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @09:10AM Allen Institute Data Enables Hackathon For the Human Brain