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              Big Data

              • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
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                UK studies pricing plan for selling NHS patient data

                Access to information could be increased by centralising anonymised records

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              • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
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                Genetic code technique for preserving huge amounts of digital information could be ‘cheaper than hard drives’

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              • Friday, 27 September, 2024
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                Improvements to data infrastructure are needed if AI is to help fix the UK national health service

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              • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
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                Enhancing data collection and streamlining recruitment helps to build more creative and innovative teams

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                Move by Alex Gerko’s market maker bucks trend among financial firms to outsource to Big Tech

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                Ireland, Germany, Singapore and China are imposing rules on building new server farms over energy usage fears

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              • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
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                China struggles to control data sales as companies shun official exchanges

                Dozens of marketplaces have sprung up since a 2020 initiative but most transactions still happen on the black market

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              • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
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                Nasa signals turn to data-driven approach in search for UFOs

                US space agency may enlist ‘citizen scientists’ in drive to find out more about unexplained anomalous phenomena

                Gimbal is one of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon that has been through the official declassification review process of the United States government and has been approved for public release
              • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
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                Greater focus on location of storage in Europe means more facilities are required, according to Japanese group

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              • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
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                Graphic: How machines learn

                Machine learning works in the same way as human learning: repeating a process and making adjustments after mistakes, to gradually improve outcomes

              • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
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                The FT AI glossary

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              • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
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                Care homes in Japan use big data to boost caregivers and lighten workloads

                Nursing facility operator Sompo is tapping technology to help solve staff shortages

              • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
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                Subsea cables: how the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing

                Driven by fears of espionage and geopolitical tensions, experts say the infrastructure underpinning the internet is in danger of dividing into eastern and western blocks

              • Friday, 12 May, 2023
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                Knowing What We Know — one mind’s account of how we store information

                Simon Winchester takes a lively, digressive look at how humans have ordered and passed on knowledge over time

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              • Friday, 27 May, 2022
                Benedict Evans
                There is no such thing as ‘data’

                What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application

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              • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
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                Birgit Troy: the tech start-up scene proves hard to resist

                The COO’s goal at Canadian data provider Canalyst is to maintain its triple-digit growth

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              • Monday, 28 March, 2022
                Customer data platforms step up to the challenge of cyber crime

                New systems let businesses record every touchpoint with consumers — but must add extra security

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              • Monday, 31 January, 2022
                Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
                Big Tech jockeys for position in scramble for health data primacy

                As medics strive to harness health information, Silicon Valley is stepping in with tools, though regulation is a concern

                Vision of the future: Virtual reality is among the technologies making inroads into clinical care
              • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
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                Data: attempts to trade information like any other commodity fall short Premium content

                Products on Shanghai Data Exchange are not only limited but also have multiple restrictions

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              • Monday, 13 December, 2021
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                Can Big Data help fix the supply chain crisis? Premium content

                Information on global logistics has suddenly got a lot more valuable, but knowledge gaps remain

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              • Monday, 13 December, 2021
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                Health tech industry learns true value of medical data

                With the emergence of artificial intelligence, health data has become gold

              • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
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                Left-field data: lift trips nail office use better than financial reports Premium content

                Data from Finnish group Kone underline the growing power of unconventional data to reveal behavioural trends

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              • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
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                China big data/AI: $470bn expansion will offer safe bets for investors Premium content

                A fresh batch of companies could recreate the success of Beijing’s first generation of listed tech giants

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