In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages. The database that tracks these costs used to be maintained by ...

A new state website lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results.

"These statistical agencies are essential infrastructure," Nancy Potok said. "There are so many critical decisions made based on federal statistical data." ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't just made up of data, chips and code—it's also the product of the metaphors and narratives we use to talk about it. The way we represent this technology determines ...

For hackers, the stolen data would be useless, but authorized users would have a secret key that filters out the fake ...

A poor night's sleep portends a bleary-eyed next day, but it could also hint at diseases that will strike years down the road ...

Today's New York Times reports on a new study by three economists purporting to show that the Supreme Court's decisions ...

An academic study found that large language models that drive some humanoid robots could make the machines prone to bias, ...

Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world, estimated at roughly 303 billion barrels, yet it consistently ...

It was hard to know what to believe this year. In the old days, there were conspiracies about the moon landing. These days, it feels like there's a conspiracy about everything -- that the truth is up ...

And for us, it’s our responsibility to wrestle with numbers that challenge our assumptions, whether we’re journalists, ...