BI 2.0

The smart city of Songdo, the world’s first ‘City in a Box’ will be ready in 2015. It encompasses 1.500 acres of reclaimed land in South Korea and it will be a revolution in city design. Songdo will become a completely connected city, where almost any device, building…

Startup Human API wants to help developers turn all the different datasets related to your health into valuable consumer-first applications…

Around the world, the health care system is rife with inefficiencies, and General Electric thinks it can help solve the problem using data. Only it’s not talking about bureaucrats looking at reports: GE has built an artificial intelligence system called Corvix that uses historical data to predict the future…

If you’re a retailer, how do you plan for the unplanned? A sudden winter snowstorm, for instance, can cause a spike in demand for batteries, canned foods and snow shovels. If you don’t have enough of those items in stock, customers may grow irate and shop elsewhere — and…

A team at the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is creating an analysis tool that makes spotting trends in social media faster and easier.

The tool, called SALSA, for SociAL Sensor Analytics, takes an automated approach that can sort through billions of tweets or other posts in seconds…

“One of our cars is covered in over 100 sensors,” Ron Dennis, executive chairman of the McLaren group, told a packed room at the G8 Innovation Conference. “In a Grand Prix they harvest 6.5 billion data points to try and give some sort of visualisation.”

The Formula One group…

Inder the ‘Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act’ [HITECH Act] states that people are entitled to their EMR data and they can do whatever they want with it, and that includes donating it to disease groups! That’s one of the big things O’Reilly Media is working…

The plan calls for a giant, global database of suspected child abuse images to be built, which Google will then share with other tech firms, law enforcement agencies and charities. Organizations concerned with fighting child porn will then be able to trade information and try to remove these images from…

Here’s some advice for bibliophiles with teetering piles of books and not enough hours in the day: don’t read them. Instead, feed the books into a computer program and make graphs, maps and charts: it is the best way to get to grips with the vastness of literature…