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...

This Startup Wants to Teach Your 5-Year-Old to Code

By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal Times

The startup Tynker is planning to teach children to code as early as age 5.
Why Alzheimer’s Will Be the Fiscal Nightmare of the Century

By Michael Hodin, The Fiscal Times

A new study by the RAND Corporation projects that the cumulative costs of caring for people with dementia could be as high as $215 billion annually in the United States – which would exceed the...
Why Google Could Elect the Next President

By Craig Timberg, The Washington Post

What would it mean for democracy if Google were actually 'evil'? Psychologist Robert Epstein has been testing the impact of a fictitious search engine, which he calls 'Kadoodle,' that manipulated...
March Madness Meets Big Data for a Winning Outcome

By Cnbc Staff, CNBC

They did it for the love of The Big Dance, and Big Data. A couple of self-described frustrated jocks teamed up more than a decade ago to produce a model for predicting which college basketball teams...
As Cyber Fears Set In, More Emails Will Be Scanned

By Joseph Menn and Deborah Charles, Reuters

The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country's private, civilian-run...

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