Smart Cities How UPS delivers faster using $8 headphones and code that decides when dirty trucks get cleaned Inside EDGE: the shipping giant’s ambitious, tech-driven bid to keep Amazon and others at bay. by Elizabeth Woyke 2018-02-16T13:19:00-05:00
Tech Policy How Tinder “Feedback Loop” Forces Men and Women into Extreme Strategies The first study of swiping strategies on Tinder shows just how different male and female mating behavior can be. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-07-15T11:03:00-04:00
Sponsored Competing Billion-Dollar Tech Companies Are Joining Forces. Here’s Why. by MIT Technology Review Insights 2015-12-09T06:10:00-05:00 in partnership with IBM
Intelligent Machines Startup Attempts to Reinvent the CPU to Make Computers Less Power-Hungry Rex Computing’s 19-year-old founder has a plan to dramatically cut the energy used by powerful computers. by Tom Simonite 2015-07-21T07:30:00-04:00
Business Impact LinkedIn Offers College Choices by the Numbers To read their futures, young people mine a database of 259 million résumés. by George Anders 2014-01-22T00:00:01-05:00
News How Your Mobile Carrier Decides Whether to Pamper You Carriers are turning to sophisticated data analytics to give better service to high-paying customers. by David Talbot 2012-03-14T00:00:00-04:00
Sustainable Energy The Energy Use of New York City's Buildings, Visualized Researchers have created a detailed map of energy consumption by buildings. But how useful is it? by Mike Orcutt 2012-02-13T15:51:00-05:00
News Data Analysis for the People Wolfram Alpha can now analyze data you provide, so you can do things like map out your e-mail relationships. by Tom Simonite 2012-02-07T15:51:00-05:00
View 'Big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians The era when all the data a business gathered on itself could be accommodated by a single spreadsheet is coming to a close by Christopher Mims 2011-09-27T22:05:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines CSI: Tech to Automatically Identify the Bad Guy Researchers hope a new system could automatically scan the hours of CCTV footage police have to comb through to identify suspects without invading privacy. by David Zax 2011-08-26T12:17:00-04:00