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Peter Thiel’s Shady, Money-Losing Data Firm Palantir Goes Public At Huge Valuation

Shares open at $7.25 apiece, valuing the company at $16 billion.
By Sissi Cao
computer glitches

Taking on Modern Day Gremlins With Artificial Intelligence

Online glitches are basically modern day gremlins—and they can cost companies millions of dollars.
By John A. Tures
The workplace environment of tomorrow will look nothing like that of today.

Workplace of 2030: A Day in The Life

The workplace environment of tomorrow will look nothing like that of today.
By Mark Minevich
Users don’t trust companies with stewardship of their data and feel they are being constantly sold to or manipulated. These feelings don’t make for good UX.

The Secret for the Best UX? Controlling Your Own Data

By Ethan Fast
Revel Health

Revel Is Rewriting the Playbook on How Health Plans Talk to You

By Arick Wierson
Salesforce tower

Why Some Salesforce Investors Didn’t Like Its Blockbuster Tableau Deal

By Sissi Cao

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Promises World Order With Artificial Intelligence

By Davis Richardson

What the Cambridge Analytica Revelations Signal for Future Political Campaigns

By Davis Richardson
AI and its exoskeleton have the potential to take the most tedious tasks off anybody’s plate and let them focus on big-picture objectives.

How the AI Exoskeleton Is Making Work Better

By Omar Tawakol
Peter Chernin.

Oscar-Nominated Producer Forms Sports Media Network for Bettors and Fantasy Players

By John Bonazzo
The hard work of implementing AI deters many companies from reaping those rewards.

AI and Business Leaders: The Perfect Partners in the Consumer-Centric World

By Mark Minevich
That football is now a hotbed for big data.

Every NFL Football Now Has a Data Tracking Chip for Improved Game Statistics

By John Bonazzo
Where exactly does all that Facebook data go?

This Chrome Extension Reveals Exactly How Facebook Uses Your Data

By John Bonazzo
The Masaya volcano in Nicaragua.

GE’s New Digital Tool Can Determine When Volcanoes Will Erupt

By John Bonazzo
Two years worth of IRC logs parsed into a single graph representing name changes and joins.

The Best Data Science Courses on the Internet, Ranked by Your Reviews

By David Venturi
Five years ago, Orbitz received unwanted press when reporters noticed it showed Mac users more expensive listings.

Threatened by E-Commerce ‘Adaptive’ Pricing Models, Consumers Might Not Buy

By Lisa Schmeiser
Chris Coghlan playing for the Cubs.

This Harvard-Backed Athletic Wearable Is the MLB’s Favorite New Toy

By John Bonazzo
There’s more you could donate besides blood, organs and tissue.

Why You Should Donate Your Data (as Well as Your Organs) When You Die

By David Martin Shaw, J. Valérie Gross and Thomas C. Erren
With so much funding at play, what are the advancements on the immediate horizon, and what will take longer to bear fruit?

Is Tech Advancing Toward the Fountain of Youth?

By Gideon Kimbrell
Next Big Sound predicted that Alessia Cara would be on the Billboard 200 in 2016. She was.

Next Big Industry to Embrace Moneyball: The Music Business

By John Bonazzo
What will the year behold in tech, style, politics and culture.

The Next Big Thing 2017: The Coming Year in Tech, Politics, Culture and Style

By Margaret Heffernan
The increased reliance on data will enable companies to offer better, more relevant products and improve consumer experiences.

Why Data May Become More Valuable Than Dollars

By Hossein Rahnama
The Chicago Cubs celebrate after winning the 2016 World Series.

How the Chicago Cubs Used Big Data to Win the World Series

By John Bonazzo
Foreign press are given a tour by the New York Foreign Press Center as they are shown a kiosk on 3rd Avenue introducing LinkNYC, New York Citys Free Superfast Broadband Experiment on March 21,2016. / AFP / Timothy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Meet the Brave Souls Who Read LinkNYC’s Two Different Privacy Policies

By Brady Dale
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