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Will The Coming Drone Swarms Eliminate Physical Privacy?
What are the privacy implications of a future in which millions of cameras fly overhead and could drone operators make…
Realtime Package Tracking: Insufficient Context Or A Case Of Consumer Data Overload?
Today the most mundane Amazon purchase broadcasts a minute-by-minute documentary of its whereabouts as it travels to its destination, but…
Should Facebook Simply Stop Moderating Its Platform?
Is Facebook’s approach of hiring an army of human reviewers to enforce a single universal standard developed in secret that…
Selected For United Nations Data for Climate Action Challenge
We are tremendously excited to have been selected for the United Nations "Data for Climate Action" challenge! Over the coming…
Television Explorer: Near-Realtime Updates & Trending Analytics
We're excited to announce two major updates to the Television Explorer that debuted over this past weekend: realtime updates and our new…
What The Leaked Facebook Rulebook Tells Us About Why It Isn't Combatting Online Violence
The more than 100 confidential Facebook documents leaked to The Guardian illustrate why content moderation is so hard and why…
Google's New 180 Petaflop Deep Learning Cloud And The Future Of Academic Computing
With Google’s announcement last week of its new 180 petaflop open deep learning cloud, what future does the traditional academic…
Was The WannaCry Worm An Early Preview Of Skynet?
As the US Government works to develop “lethal” cyberweapons capable of opening dams and triggering nuclear plant meltdowns, could the…
Know-Evolve: Deep Temporal Reasoning for Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
This paper by researchers at the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology explores reasoning over time in…
Will Kushner's White House Innovation Effort Finally Fix Government's Innovation Problem?
The US Government has a reputation of the place technology ideas go to die and data is put to pasture…
Project Sailor Moon Shiny App
Donny Chen and Yixin Zhang created this really neat Shiny app with a number of great visualizations. Under the hood…
New "Showcase" Format For GDELT GEO 2.0 API
We're excited to announce today the debut of the new "showcase" format in the GDELT GEO 2.0 API! This new…
Dev Fest DC 2017
Kalev spoke at DevFest DC today on how GDELT uses Google Cloud Platform, especially tools like BigQuery and Google's AI…
How Facebook Secretly Turned Us All Into Digital Lab Rats
The Australian's expose that Facebook researchers conducted secret emotional marketing research on young children to identify their most vulnerable moments…
Can AI Rescue Us From Violent Images Online?
With all of the recent conversation about depictions of violence deluging the online world, can AI offer a solution? Read…
Will Twitter Replace The Photojournalist?
Over the past two years the mainstream journalism world has increasingly turned to Twitter and Instagram for images of breaking…
Mapping Global Pollution And Natural Disasters Through AI And News Images
How advances in deep learning can be used to watch the daily firehose of global news imagery to catalog illegal…
GDELT GEO 2.0 API Debuts!
We are immensely excited today to announce the debut of the first of the GDELT 2.0 APIs: the GDELT GEO…
No The EPA's Open Data Website Is Not Going Away – The Future Of Open Science Data
Reports that the EPA’s open data website is shutting down this Friday are just normal government shutdown bureaucracy and the…
Why Don't Social Media Companies Stop Violent Imagery?
The technology exists to prevent violent imagery from being shown and to stop banned images from being reposted, so why…
New York Times Magazine Cites Television Candidate Tracker
The New York Times Magazine's in-depth feature (both online and in print) on how CNN covered the Trump campaign over…
Why Congress' FCC Broadband Privacy Vote Might Actually Help Privacy
Given how Silicon Valley accelerated the web’s transition to HTTPS in reaction to government surveillance, could Congress’ vote last week…
What To Do When The 'Government-Backed Attackers' Come For You
How I joined the ranks of the 0.1% of Google users to get the “government-backed attackers may be trying to…
New GDELT 2.0 API Interactive Maps: ADM1
As geography becomes an ever more central modality for understanding the world around us, we've heard loud and clear from…