Big Data

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: The Knockout Numbers Behind the Fight of the Century

By Josh Stelzer, The Fiscal Times

“The Fight of the Century” is finally happening Saturday night, and that title still holds even though the bout should have happened more than five years ago. Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao...
This Hacker Wants to Save the U.S. Airline Industry

By Eamon Javers, CNBC

Chris Roberts says he didn't mean any harm. The security researcher was detained by the FBI last week after he tweeted—while on an airplane—about airline vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. Roberts...
30 Things You Can’t Buy If You’re on Welfare

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Residents of the Sunflower State who receive public assistance through the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program have just gotten a stern message: Use your welfare check for frivolous...
7 Ways to Decode the Best Credit Card Deal

By Beth Braverman

For Americans with good credit, it’s a great time to earn rewards with plastic. With the economy improving but consumers remaining tepid about spending, banks are getting more creative and more...
Why Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Aid the Oil Industry

By Ernest Scheyder, Reuters

The tech geeks are coming to the oil industry's rescue. With the price of crude plumbing lows not seen since 2009, Royal Dutch Shell , Whiting Petroleum Corp and many others are turning to rocket...

Wall Street Looks to Critical March Jobs Report

By Patti Domm, CNBC

A truckload of data will hit markets in the coming week, but it's the jobs report Friday when Wall Street is closed that will be the most important and possibly have the most lasting impact. The...
The Secret Success of Today’s Biohackers

By Ellen Jorgensen, Techonomy

In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for...
Stocks Have Scores of Reasons for New Volatility

By Patti Domm, CNBC

Stocks, stuck in their own zigzag pattern, remain vulnerable to the whims of unusually volatile currencies in the week ahead. As financial markets adjust to the Fed's latest guidance on rates,...
Hack Attacks Mean More Cyber Firms Will Go Public

By Liana B. Baker, Reuters

Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to...
Why the Military Wants to Restore Your Online Privacy

By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

The average, technologically connected American worker produces some 5,000 megabytes of digital data a day, enough to fill nine CD-ROMs. Only a small fraction of it is stored permanently or is...

After Years, Americans Are Resigned to Surveillance

By David Francis

Civil libertarians are blasting President Obama for the surveillance network that monitors the country. But the system is nothing new, and lawmakers said it has prevented terror attacks.
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge

By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, The Washington Post

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies.
Bernanke Big on Innovation's Boost to America

By Reuters

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to lift living standards as he delivered the commencement address at Bard College. The Fed...
An Internet of Everything: Tech’s Biggest Transition

By David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy

The Internet has done a good job connecting the world, but has really functioned thus far mostly just as a souped-up communications and information tool for individuals—a sort of phone/telegraph/...
Facial Recognition Tech: New Key to Crime Solving

By Cnbc Staff, CNBC

One of the growing tech tools law enforcement agencies are using to track down suspects during crime investigations is facial recognition (FR) technology. In fact, before the FBI reached out to the...

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