After Spectre and Meltdown, Intel Expands Bug Bounty Program Nick Kolakowski, February 16, 2018 2 min read Intel, which is still wrestling with the fallout of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, is expanding its...
Google’s Unusual Cloud-Storage Offer Dice Staff, November 16, 2015 2 min read If you’re a Google Drive user, and want 1 TB of extra space for free, Google can make that happen… provided you...
Crowdsourcing Could Help Monitor Nuclear Weapons Nick Kolakowski, January 23, 2014 3 min read The U.S. government wants to use more “Big Data” analytics and crowdsourcing to help keep tabs on the...
How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World Jon Brodkin, August 14, 2013 12 min read A mockup of how the IRL plugin might look. Three years ago, game designer and author Jane McGonigal argued that...
Google May Launch Bidding War with Facebook Over Waze: Report Nick Kolakowski, May 24, 2013 3 min read Waze unleashes the power of crowds on traffic. Here we go again: weeks after news leaked that Facebook was...
Facebook Negotiating $1 Billion Deal for Waze: Report Nick Kolakowski, May 9, 2013 3 min read Waze offers crowd-sourced navigation updates. Facebook seems on the verge of dropping another billion dollars on...
Using Big Data to Save the Planet Nick Kolakowski, May 2, 2013 4 min read Global hotspots, like Kenya during its most recent elections, could see a reduction in violence thanks to...
Crowdsourcing, Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing Aftermath Nick Kolakowski, April 22, 2013 8 min read Law enforcement agents had to watch video segments from the bombing hundreds of times over a few days in order to...
Has Kickstarter Peaked? David Strom, March 26, 2013 11 min read Kickstarter has taken off in the past year, raising big money for a wide variety of projects. Look at some of their...
How Kooky Kaggle Contests Advance Data Science David Strom, March 14, 2013 8 min read Kaggle.com: Big Data, and sometimes big prizes. Kaggle.com lets organizations and individuals post problems to its...
