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- Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute http://scienceblog.com/36957/data-sorting-world-record-falls-computer-scientists-break-terabyte-sort-barrier-in-60-seconds/ 15 comments
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- CAP, Availability, High-Availability and Big Data databases in a world of partitions http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/04/cap-availability-high-availability-and_16.html 15 comments distributed , scaling
- The World Bank launches data access APIs serving data for approximately 200 countries over 50+ years http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/2009/04/world-bankoecd-beat-us-government-10.html 7 comments programming
- BBC News: Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47537201 4 comments india
- Helpful world data of each country in JSON formats https://github.com/samayo/country.json/tree/master/src 3 comments node
- Based on U.N. Data the world’s most valuable cash crop, from an absolute value perspective, is cannabis http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-most-valuable-cash-crop/ 15 comments worldnews
- Russia Accuses Whistleblower in World Anti-Doping Agency Case of Modifying Key Data https://time.com/5754389/world-anti-doping-agency-russia-witness-data/ 8 comments worldnews
- Postgresql JSON data type - The best of both the NoSQL and SQL worlds! http://www.jumpingbean.co.za/blogs/mark/postgresql-javascript-native-json-support 6 comments programming
- Experts say new climate data shows how close world already is to breaching 1.5C Paris agreement pledge https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/09/global-temperatures-likely-to-hit-at-least-1c-warming-for-next-five-years 4 comments worldnews
- The future of NOAA, the world’s largest repository of climate data, is now in the hands of a climate-change denier https://qz.com/899450/trump-kenneth-haapala-and-wilbur-ross-the-future-of-noaa-the-worlds-largest-repository-of-climate-data-is-now-in-the-hands-of-a-climate-change-denier/ 32 comments politics
- One Look at Pornhub Data Shows What Germany's Doing During the World Cup Semifinal http://mic.com/articles/92997/one-look-at-pornhub-data-shows-what-germany-s-doing-during-the-world-cup-semifinal 5 comments technology
- Utah lawmaker floats bill to cut off NSA data centre's water supply | World news http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/utah-lawmaker-nsa-data-centre-water-supply 5 comments privacy
- State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world's leading authors http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/surveillance-theft-worlds-leading-authors 7 comments worldnews
- TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/bytedance-tiktok-bytespider-scraper-bot/ 3 comments marketing
- The world’s largest banks continue to pour billions of dollars into fossil fuels despite making net-zero pledges, finds new data from the Rainforest Action Network. https://www.energymonitor.ai/finance/banking/net-zero-banks-show-little-sign-of-slowing-down-fossil-fuel-financing/ 20 comments climate
- Only 2.7% of Southeast Asia cities breathed 'healthy' air in 2022: Report | Only eight out of 296 regional cities in Southeast Asia - where data is recorded - met the World Health Organisation’s guideline for PM2.5 last year. PM2.5 are tiny particles that can cause serious health problems. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/air-quality-pollution-iqair-southeast-asia-3348551 9 comments worldnews
- [OptaFranz] 18 - In France's 0-1 loss to Tunisia, Eduardo Camavinga won 18 duels - the most by a Frenchman in a single World Cup match since the beginning of detailed data collection in 1966. Jewel. https://twitter.com/optafranz/status/1598012987738312704?s=46&t=1j31aKVxPXrX76JTRbkhxw 28 comments soccer
- [Joe Pompliano] Fun Fact: The World Cup introduced a new ball this year with a sensor that collects spatial positioning data in real-time to make offside reviews more accurate. But it needs to be charged before each match https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1598002512639848449?s=20&t=UQ_pL8EAma_WIwyWTtkjSg 79 comments soccer
- Why do we need a different form of a life form telling us that nuclear weapons are bad and we are not taking care of our world, don’t we know this already? Why must it come from above to be relevant? Also, before our era, what was the message given, like circa 1800s, do we have any data on that? https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZmP2Ax81b5bmaaykaHN6A?si=xB_bBObHRp2L7FFTC2lp1A 17 comments aliens
- Does anyone know of fully-fledged games that used real-world map data? https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/k4feiz/does_anyone_know_of_fullyfledged_games_that_used/ 12 comments gamedev
- 70+ Machine Learning Datasets - Gain real-world experience with Data Science projects! https://data-flair.training/blogs/machine-learning-datasets/ 3 comments programming
- ‘India joblessness data not factored into World Bank growth estimates’: Investment figures, manufacturing weaker than expected https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-business/india-joblessness-data-not-factored-into-world-bank-growth-estimates/article27475474.ece 4 comments india
- Global Warming Has Been Influencing Drought for a Century - The findings emerged from centuries of tree ring data from around the world, analyzed by researchers from NASA, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Columbia University. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-has-been-influencing-drought-for-a-century/ 13 comments worldnews
- Satellite confirms key NASA temperature data: The planet is warming, and fast | If anything, the researchers found, the pace of climate change could be somewhat more severe than previously acknowledged, at least in the fastest warming part of the world — its highest latitudes https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/04/17/satellite-confirms-key-nasa-temperature-data-planet-is-warming-fast/?utm_term=.1055501d8ab3 6 comments worldnews
- It's looking like all recent Intels CPU have a severe bug and the patches are slowing down data center servers by 30%. This will the server world upside down https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/7nq97p/its_looking_like_all_recent_intels_cpu_have_a/ 44 comments investing
- Former sports researcher, giving away the data I've collected about football/soccer World Cup players. Anybody interested? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/6skv6q/former_sports_researcher_giving_away_the_data_ive/ 14 comments history
- The Ferranti Mark 1: World's First Commercially Available General-Purpose Computer -- "It stored data in cathode-ray tubes and a rotating magnetic drum" http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-ferranti-mark-1-worlds-first-commercially-available-generalpurpose-computer 4 comments programming
- Religious participation is linked to lower suicide rates in many parts of the world, including the United States and Russia, but does not protect against the risk of suicide in sections of Europe and Asia, finds new research by Michigan State University based on data from 42 countries. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/does-religion-protect-against-suicide/ 11 comments science
- Sharpest laser in the world created. The light it emits travels 2 million miles before going out of sync. Possible applications include high precision experiments to make atomic clocks more accurate, to collect better radio astronomy data, and to test Einstein’s theory of relativity. http://www.newsweek.com/worlds-sharpest-laser-created-scientists-630464 19 comments science
- Why the super-rich are even richer than we thought: Analysis of a massive trove of data – much of it leaked from tax havens – suggests that inequality levels across the world should be revised upwards dramatically https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jun/14/tax-evaders-exposed-why-super-rich-are-even-richer-than-we-thought 97 comments worldnews
- Revealed: nearly all new diesel cars exceed official pollution limits - Health experts lambast ‘deceitful’ carmakers as data suggests 97% of vehicles fail to meet NOx emissions standards in real-world conditions. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/23/diesel-cars-pollution-limits-nox-emissions 29 comments technology
- African elephants 'killed faster than they are being born': The new data, released on UN world wildlife day on Thursday, shows about 60% of elephant deaths are at the hands of poachers, meaning the overall population is most likely to be falling. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/african-elephants-killed-faster-than-they-are-being-born 210 comments worldnews
- Switzerland has been supplanted as the worlds tax heaven by the US. While Europe's banks are forced to hand over data, their US counterparts do not have to. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-s-favorite-new-tax-haven-is-the-united-states 10 comments europe
- Global markets are poised for more volatility next week with key economic data from China expected to show that the world's second-largest economy continues to grow at its slowest pace since the financial crisis, despite aggressive measures taken by the central bank to boost growth. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/15/buckle-your-seatbelts-china-could-rock-markets-next-week.html 5 comments worldnews
- Apple Maps Vehicles - Apple is driving vehicles around the world to collect data which will be used to improve Apple Maps. Some of this data will be published in future Apple Maps updates. http://maps.apple.com/vehicles/ 19 comments apple
- UK government 'most transparent' in the world; according to global rankings looking at public access to official data. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30883472 11 comments worldnews
- Germany: the world's capital of penis enlargement - One in five surgeries takes place in Germany, according to data released by plastic surgeons http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jul/31/germany-the-worlds-capital-of-penis-enlargment-country 5 comments worldnews
- Europe decides to open up clinical data but one of world's biggest pharma companies wants to keep their trials secret. Here's why https://theconversation.com/maker-of-worlds-best-selling-drug-uses-legal-action-to-keep-data-secret-20041 18 comments worldnews
- Using infrared data, an international team of astronomers has imaged a giant planet around the bright star GJ 504. Several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size, the new world, dubbed GJ 504b, is the lowest-mass planet ever detected around a star like the sun using direct imaging techniques. http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/astronomers-image-lowest-mass-exoplanet-around-a-sun-like-star/index.html#.ugd_0g1gb8e 7 comments science
- Why Owning Software or Data 'No Longer Makes Sense' - “We're moving into a world that is evolving into a subscription economy.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2012/11/23/why-owning-software-or-data-no-longer-makes-sense/ 18 comments technology