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A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.

Though the NSA surveillance has gotten a lot of attention, there's also a thriving public market for data ...

In recent years, books like "Predictably Irrational, Nudge and Thinking Fast and Slow" have catapulted the findings of ...

Keynes’s keynote book, "The General Theory", is loaded with economic theory. There are only two pages of data ...

Ezra Klein has launched his new site, Vox.com, with an essay on ‘how politics makes us stupid’. The ...

If you use the Internet and carry a smart phone, it’s likely that most of your life is ...

Much of big data comes from people. Web logs, mobile phone usage, financial transactions, insurance claims, you name ...

The information is vast, the challenges daunting, and the tools statistical. But in the end, Harvard’s new class ...

For the past twenty years, the double edge sword of technology has been something to behold and recoil from ...

About 3,600 volunteer New Yorkers walked the streets and subway stations in efforts to count the city's homeless.

Cisco Systems announced the CRS-3 series of router hardware that is capable of handling 322 Tbps of Internet ...

Google on Thursday announced Google Dashboard, a service which allows a Google user to see a summary of ...