In Philadelphia's tight-knit business community, showing up to a sales meeting with relevant company intelligence sets you ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State Javascript is required for you to be able to read ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

If it feels like data breach letters are arriving more often than junk mail, you're not imagining it. A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says data breaches hit a record high last ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

NYPD boss Jessica Tisch and her rank and file keep scoring impressive wins against crime, thanks in no small part to the department’s gang database. Yet Zohran Mamdani is vowing to scrap it. Yet more ...

Six U.S. cities — Austin, Texas; Boston; Dallas; Denver; Kansas City, Missouri; and Newport News, Virginia — are set to join the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance, Bloomberg announced last ...

Terry Lane is a writer for Investopedia with 25 years of experience in journalism and communications. He covers personal finance, Congress, government regulations, and economics. Amanda ...

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...