data mining
If Edward Snowden Can So Easily Leak Secrets, What Else Could NSA Agents Do?
How could such a new staffer release such powerful documents? And what could someone more connected do?
People in Poor Countries Are More Interested in the Past Than the Future
The internet's data mine isn't bottomless; you actually hit an inpenetrable barrier fairly quick, and it's something far older than the web. That _kachink_ of your information shovel recoiling is due to the simple fact of language. You can translate...
Google Wants To Target Ads Based On "Environmental Conditions"; Let's Imagine What That Could Actually Mean
Google's new (newish) idea is this: sometime in the future, you might have sensors on your "remote device" that can monitor said device's current environment. Based on this information, the company can then better target ads on that remote device...
Where Do Tweets Go When They Die?
If you've been using Twitter for any significant amount of time, you've probably stopped at least once to wonder what happens to your tweets after they grow old and disappear off your timeline. Part of the answer is that even though Twitter doesn't...