The new Maps app consumes one-fifth as much data as does its Google rival, says analytics firm Onavo, a bonus for subscribers on a strict data plan. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

From listening to any kind of survey of what people are talking about in AI right now, we know that privacy is important. And that’s an understatement. Time and time again, we hear people talking ...

Headlines have reiterated that investments in big data have continued to increase, and the big data story they’re selling us on just keeps getting bigger. But it’s time to burst that bubble. For the ...

You probably heard that the variety and quality of economic data are being challenged by the cutback in federal workers who collect such data. For most folks it’s no big deal. There are already too ...