Recently a New York Times article on Russian submarine activity near undersea communications cables dredged up Cold War politics and generated widespread recognition of the submerged systems we all depend […]
Category: big data
Has auto-translation software finally stopped being so useless?
If you’ve ever put a phrase into an online translator and then laughed at the garbled results, your fun might be coming to an end. Google claimed last week to […]
The NFL joins the data revolution in sports
In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first […]
Machine learning and big data know it wasn’t you who just swiped your credit card
You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit asking if you’ve just made a purchase at a department […]
Where’s your data? It’s not actually in the cloud, it’s sitting in a data centre
Without data centres, today’s world stops. Flights are grounded, Wall Street closes, and the internet grinds to a halt. Yet despite their emergence as nerve centres of the global economy, […]