Despite the gleaming white building that houses it, the Supreme Court is one of the most powerful black boxes in the country. When it convenes for oral arguments, there are no photos, no videos, no broadcasts.That’s not to say we’re clueless about the court’s goings on, of course. Journalists and bloggers attend the arguments and report back to their readers. […]
A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of data has found that such information could be used to discriminate against Americans on issues such as housing and employment even as it makes their lives easier in many ways.
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Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.
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BERKELEY Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.His high-tech startup “Synthicity” has been chosen from a field of nearly 200 applicants as one of San Francisco’s six new […]
Having just missed out of +500% returns in the Caracas stock market last year, the reality of a hyperinflating world continue to cause chaos in the real world of Venezuela. As Bloomberg reports, the bolivar’s 73% decline against the dollar on the black market in 2013 is fueling contraband and worsening shortages of food and consumer goods in a country […]
A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/APGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of event across the financial markets, the world economy, the eurozone and the business world.There’s an cautiously optimistic mood in the stock markets this morning, after the latest Chinese trade […]
