data mining
The Strategy Behind All Those 'Sarah From the Conservatives' Texts
Andrew Scheer and 'Sarah' may not be reading your snarky responses, but there's a new class of data miners voters should worry about.
'Minecraft' Data Mining Reveals Players’ Darkest Secrets
A Minecraft fan is using data-mining techniques to retrieve players’ in-game journals and correspondence, some of which is inspiring, depressing, and absurd.
Macrophotography Creates Cybernetic Portraits of Silicon Chips
Transylvanian photographer Maximilian Tomozei examines how many silicon chips hold various aspects of human identity.
How to Make a Play About Technology as Human as Possible
'Darknet' opens this week at London's Southwark Playhouse. Playwright Rose Lewenstein and director Russell Bender discuss their creative process.
Your Boss May Be Able to Track If You're Trying to Get Pregnant
Large companies can now obtain employee health information from big data companies, including when and if they've stopped filling their birth control prescriptions.
Your Employer Can Now Track Your Birth Control Prescription
Privacy experts say this could be a bad thing, duh.
How Uber Profits Even While Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money
Drivers say the data they generate for Uber—even when they don't have passengers—contain value that they're not being compensated for
Our Grins Have Grown Wider Over the Last Century, Machine-Vision Algorithms Show
In the past we said ‘prunes’ not ‘cheese’ when we smiled for the camera.
Bernie Sanders Is Very Worried About Your Data
But if Sanders is serious about curbing the power of Big Data, he might want to start with his own website.