The term “dark data” sounds rather ominous, says Franklin Manchester, self-described “insurance super nerd” and principal global insurance advisor at SAS. “It's not as nefarious as it sounds,” says ...

Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has made the situation much worse. By Ben Casselman and Colby Smith Tariffs are at ...

The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) paints a troubling picture of the current cybersecurity landscape, marked by the increasing exploitation of vulnerabilities as one of the main ...

With help from Duke’s Energy Data Analytics Lab, a new database is providing the clearest picture yet of global greenhouse gas emissions. Dubbed Climate TRACE, the database maps human-produced ...

Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people of color.

We take and share photos every day, often without realizing we might be revealing much more than the image itself. “Almost any time a photograph is taken, there’s a lot of data collected along with ...

An MIT Technology Review investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside ...