Photo Credit: Catherine Balet “Strangers in the light” (Steidl) 2012, from “The Human Face of Big Data.” Popular opinion about big data is not all that rosy.

You may have missed the electronic band Big Data this weekend at Brooklyn Bowl, but the National Security Agency was there.. A chirping computerized voice, identifying itself as “the NSA,” interrupted ...

Can Apple take the 'big brother' out of big data? Written by Steve Ranger, Global News Director June 14, 2016 at 6:55 a.m. PT The iPhone will provide facial recognition so users can sort pictures ...

Crowdoptic, a two-year-old Silicon Valley startup, says it can now determine the most popular objects of photos taken during mass-interest events, such as Hurricane Sandy and the London Olympics.

Big data is a critical cornerstone of most social media businesses and Pinterest is no exception. The underlying algorithms that make Pinterest successful and fun — the ones that suggest new ...

Writing about how the big-data future has arrived, Michael S. Malone says it is now possible to measure everything, from the movement of billions of stars to each heartbeat.

Big data models a scenario tens of thousands of times, whereas presidential elections happen only once every four years. So that piece was missing too, Castro said. Some say the electorate may ...