data

Everything you need to know about capture the flag exercises

As data becomes the most valuable product in a growing tech-dependent world, data security concerns are on the rise.

Is none of our data safe with the government?

Focus on cybersecurity, rather than crackdown on dissent

Digital literacy is key to building a Smart Bangladesh

It can prepare us for the nation’s present and future needs

We should care more about online privacy

Why should you care about your privacy and digital footprint?

What’s a healthcare system without data? Simply incomplete.

An informed public health professional will argue that public health is half medical and half data. Without data, any health system is effectively blind. Data provides visibility into public health emergencies and non-emergencies alike. It saves lives. It tells us where the government needs to pour its funds and which areas to mobilise resources in. It helps identify gaps in healthcare and measure outcomes. Indeed, data is the eyes and ears of public health.

Good planning requires accurate data

An economy without an independent source of data is like an aircraft flying without its airspeed sensors.

Policies to protect privacy and data

The first industrial revolution was triggered by the steam engine, whereas the second and third ones were driven by mass production and the microprocessor, respectively.

Japan relapses into recession in July-Sept, blow to Abenomics

Japan's economy slid back into recession in July-September as uncertainty over the overseas outlook hurt business investment.

Facebook data transfers threatened by Safe Harbour ruling

A pact that helped the tech giants and others send personal data from the EU to the US has been ruled invalid.

August 28, 2015
August 28, 2015

Days numbered for barcodes as shoppers demand more data

Growing demand for more information about the products we buy could mean the end of the simple barcode - the blocks of black and white stripes that adorn most objects for sale and are scanned five billion times a day.

August 21, 2015
August 21, 2015

China factory data fuels slowdown fears

Latest data suggests factory activity in China shrank at its fastest pace in more than six years in August.

June 17, 2015
June 17, 2015

All of world’s data can fit on teaspoon size DNA hard drive

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found a way to encode data onto DNA—the very same stuff that all living beings’ genetic information is stored on—that could survive for millennia

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