- Digital data: The world is losing its ability to reconstruct history http://www.economist.com/node/21553445 8 comments history
- [OC] 7-Million Years of World History Data on an Interactive Map (Events, Battles, Art, & More) https://geowanderer.com/ 5 comments dataisbeautiful
- Nvidia became the largest public company in the world - is Data Science the biggest hype in history? https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/markets/nvidia-largest-public-company/index.html 149 comments datascience
- Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90% of the world’s internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other sensitive information https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-team-cymru-browsing-email-data 154 comments futurology
- For the first time in history, Polish exports are higher than Russian exports - according to the latest data from the World Bank. https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/polska-wyprzedza-rosje-w-eksporcie-towarow-i-uslug-pierwszy-raz-w-historii-7080494277450336a.html 53 comments europe
- A new report shows the most popular web browsers in the world are sending companies your history or personal data. Here's how each browser's privacy stacks up. Chrome, Firefox, and Safari were each ranked in the second-lowest privacy tier, while Microsoft Edge and Yandex were ranked as least private https://www.businessinsider.com/web-browsers-privacy-concerns-chrome-firefox-safari-edge-yandex-2020-2?ir=t 55 comments technology
- Using data from 73 sites around the world, scientists have been able to reconstruct Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age. http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/features/reconstructed/ 14 comments science
- Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation --- Short history of Sealand, self-proclaimed micro-nation on an old oil-rig in the North Sea. Once a base for pirate broadcasters. Soon, perhaps, a home for Wikileaks? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco.ars 24 comments worldnews
- China overtakes US to become world's biggest goods trader: A 'landmark milestone' in China's economic history as it overhauls America to become the biggest goods trading nation, as investors awaits the latest US employment data http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/10/china-becomes-worlds-biggest-goods-trader-us-jobs-report-business-live#block-52cfa35de4b0ef9175134db4 16 comments worldnews
- Days after fire destroyed irreplaceable specimens at Brazil’s National Museum, scientists quantified the fossils that sit in natural history collections around the world, estimating that only 3 to 4 percent of these “dark data” are currently accounted for in published scientific literature. https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/scientists-quantify-the-vast-and-valuable-finds-stored-on-museum-shelves 3 comments science