Tech Policy How to date someone out of your league Data mining suggests why couples tend to match in desirability—and how to improve your odds when pursuing someone further up the scale. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2018-08-30T11:10:00-04:00
Blockchain This security firm found rogue crypto mining infecting 1,000 customers Darktrace’s AI tools found one crypto side business operating under the floorboards of a bank’s data center. by James Temple 2018-03-27T16:42:00-04:00
Silicon Valley The Cambridge Analytica affair reveals Facebook’s “Transparency Paradox” Sinan Aral, a professor at MIT, fears the fallout from the scandal could limit researchers’ access to social networks’ data. by Martin Giles 2018-03-19T20:30:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence How Data Mining Reveals the World’s Healthiest Cuisines Algorithms are teasing apart the link between food and health to provide the first evidence that we really are what we eat. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-11-03T14:09:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Data Mining Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Human Weight Change All things tend to regress to the mean. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-10-14T10:00:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-07-06T09:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Can You Really Spot Cancer Through a Search Engine? A new study argues that mining people’s searches could help catch cancer sooner, providing a tantalizing glimpse of how our online habits might be used to improve health. by Michael Reilly 2016-06-08T15:10:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines How Data Mining Reveals the Hidden Evolution of American Automobiles By treating the birth and death of car models as a kind of “fossil record,” anthropologists have been able to chart the evolution of American automobiles for the first time. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-04-06T12:28:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Your Future Toyota May Know Where You’re Going Before You’ve Told It Toyota’s new subsidiary will manage the troves of data collected from its increasingly connected cars. by Will Knight 2016-04-04T16:43:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics over 700 Years Mathematical thinking dominates our understanding of the universe. Now network theorists have discovered the tipping points in the evolution of ideas that have shaped the modern mathematical landscape. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-04-01T12:50:00-04:00
