Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit machine that might ...

I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Leaf wetness in crops can help us understand when to treat them to avoid diseases. Monitoring wetness, soil humidity and temperature are all important. The leaf wetness sensor is a sensor used to ...

A massive data breach by a company named National Public Data could have made billions of personal financial records vulnerable. Many Americans are wondering if they've been personally affected and ...

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Twenty years ago, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations were all the rage. These new financial products were, initially, a wonder: they helped put millions of people into ...

As our economy, society and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively and from multiple angles.

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...

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