Data Mining

Amazon to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by Chile's telescopes

This will prove fertile ground for Amazon to develop new Artificial Intelligence tools.

Govt will wait for Facebook and Cambridge Analytica's responses before taking any action: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad further said that a UK parliamentary committee is conducting an investigation and added that he did not wish to comment on the views of one of its members.

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data row: Political vision of politicians needs to be steered by people, not mathematical algorithms

Even though the process of manipulating the political narrative during elections is not something new, there is something sinister about for-profit organisations and foreign agents using data technologies to disrupt democratic norms.

Apps, whether NaMo or Facebook, are meant to harvest data; what India needs is a Lokpal for data protection

When grey areas in data science meet political innuendo, as with the controversy around the Narendra Modi app, results can be incendiary in the age of real-time social media

India's agritech startups are employing data mining and AI to improve crop yield, make farming profitable

Agritech startups are disrupting the Indian agricultural economy in unexpected ways by employing data mining and AI to help improve crop yield.

Brazilian prosecutors to investigate if Cambridge Analytica 'influenced' country's October elections

Federal prosecutors in Latin America's biggest country announced Thursday that they are conducting an investigation to determine if Cambridge Analytica illegally used the profiles of millions of Brazilian Facebook users

Cambridge Analytica row: BJP govt manufacturer of fake news, biggest data thieves, says Randeep Surjewala

BJP govt is a manufacturer of fake news and an epitome of post-truth. Their nexus with Cambridge Analytica has been exposed, Randeep Surjewala said.

Congress misused services of Cambridge Analytica during 2017 Gujarat polls, says BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad

Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accused Congress of "lying" and "misusing" the services of the data mining company Cambridge Analytica to win the Gujarat Assembly elections in December 2017

Facebook crisis management in tailspin too, Zuckerberg silence is making things worse

The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, assume responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management experts say Facebook is 0-for-4.

China to invest heavily in artificial intelligence, to help predict social unrest and terrorism: Report

China has outlined plans to become a world-leader in artificial intelligence by 2025, laying down a challenge to US dominance in the sector amid heightened international tensions over military applications of the technology.