Teaming up with healthcare professionals, China's internet search giant Baidu has launched "Medical Brain" to help patients and doctors by improving the equity and efficiency of the nation's healthcare system.
Facebook is to build its third data center outside the United States in Denmark to store and manage the social media giant's growing data, such as photos and videos, a Danish news website reported.
Google wants to do a lot more for mobile users in India.
Facebook (FB.O) said it would appeal against an order by a German privacy regulator on Tuesday to stop collecting and storing data of German users of its messaging app WhatsApp and to delete all data that has already been forwarded to it.
The United Nations Global Pulse initiative on Friday announced a partnership with Twitter that will provide the United Nations with access to the platform's data tools to support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders in September last year.
China's first national gene bank, China National Genebank, will open in the southern city of Shenzhen on Sept. 22, with the goal of protecting, researching and utilizing genetic resources, Nanfang Daily reported. The gene bank hopes to boost the genetics industry and safeguard China’s genetic information.
Japan's core consumer prices declined for a fifth straight month in July, the biggest fall in three years, according to government figures on Friday, adding more pressure on the central bank to ease its monetary policy and boost its reflationary efforts.
Locating people living in poverty, such as through door-to-door surveys, sometimes is difficult and even dangerous on the African continent, and scientists are now turning to satellite images.
For the last few years, American technology giants have been embroiled in a power struggle with the United States government over when authorities get to see and use the digital data that the companies collect.
It only took two days of the Pokemon Go craze to make Shama Diegnan start fearing for her wallet.The 11-year-old son of Diegnan, a digital marketer from South Orange, New Jersey, had on Monday downloaded the popular app, an augmented reality game in which you search the real world for assorted Pokemon creatures.
Since the words "new economy" were put into a government report, by Premier Li Keqiang, for the first time on March 5 during the two sessions, it has become the focus of social attention.
Over fears of adulterated or substandard food, many Chinese rely on word-of-mouth to find safe groceries, but officials and technicians say it is time to take a more scientific approach and use big data to address food safety concerns.
The initial data of one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month confirmed there was smoke on board.
Apple’s newest encryption tool better secures files on all its devices, just the latest in a move to widespread encryption in the tech industry
‘Differential privacy’ is an effort to harness insights about what a group of users is doing, not an individual
Andrew has 23.5GB of photos and documents in OneDrive. Next month, Microsoft is reducing the free storage allowance to 5GB. What should he do?
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