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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      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
      Technology sector
      Data sovereignty push boosting demand for digital infrastructure, says NTT

      Greater focus on location of storage in Europe means more facilities are required, according to Japanese group

      Abhijit Dubey
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
      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
      FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
      The FT AI glossary

      Want to know the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning? Or the definition of God-like AI? Look it up here

    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      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
      Visual story
      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
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      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

      Rory Griffiths illustration showing a person’s hand superimposed on geometric shapes and percentage figures
    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      InterviewWomen in business
      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
      Lex
      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
      Trade Secrets
      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

      Business visualisation of artificial intelligence
    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      Pooja Rao
      Health tech industry learns true value of medical data

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

    • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
      Lex
      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
      Lex
      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

      Illustration of big data and automation technology on a virtual screen
    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
      Antibiotic accountability: how countries and companies perform

      FT dashboard tracks responses to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance

    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
      China
      China blocks access to shipping location data

      Number of identification signals drops dramatically after new data law is introduced

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    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      HMRC chief insists new data grab will bring taxpayer benefits

      ‘If we’d had the data during the pandemic, we could have helped more people’

      Jim Harra, HMRC chief executive
    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Healthcare
      Ungoverned digital advances undermine global healthcare gains

      Too much is at stake for the future of health and wellbeing to leave digital transformations unregulated

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
      Tougher public safeguards urged for digital health data

      Lancet report argues that governments should limit data extraction of powerful tech companies

    • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
      Lex
      Flood risks: big data is helping business keep its head above water Premium content

      As threat to wealth and health grows, expect predictive technology to become equally vital

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    • Monday, 20 September, 2021
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans for digital dictatorship

      Beijing has pushed through reams of regulations and policies to shore up China’s data security

    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      How to spot scientists who peddle bad data

      Fraudulent research wastes the time of scientists who try to build on it and the money of agencies who support it

    • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
      The Big Read
      China and Big Tech: Xi’s blueprint for a digital dictatorship

      By controlling a huge volume of data, Beijing is conducting a grand experiment in 21st century authoritarian governance

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