There are many things about Apple’s iPad which make it a super device: watching movies, gaming, catching up on news, following activity on your social networks, browsing the web, and more. Our ownMartinpenned amarvelous piececoncerning the best apps to accomplish all the above lest you question the voluminous things one can do using an iPad. That said, one of the best things to do on the iPad is read a good book (assuming you’re a reader)....

The vast majority of websites you visit now greet you with a pop-up. This annoying impediment to your seamless web browsing is called the “cookie banner”, and it’s there to secure your consent, as peronline privacy laws, for websites to retain information about you between browsing sessions. The cookie banner purports to offer you a choice: consent to only the essential cookies that help maintain your browsing functionality, or accept them all – including cookies that track your browsing history to sell on to targeted advertising firms....

With the average adult spending4.2 hoursa day on smartphone apps in 2020, our reliance on technology has evolved even more than we might have thought possible. From ordering food to connecting with loved ones or binge-watching the latest series, our data consumption is an integral part of daily life. As a result, businesses are also consuming more data than ever before, and this trend will only grow. But our tech-loving ways could cause lasting damage to the planet....

Want to know the 1990 CO2 emissions in Botswana? Or the tonnage of potatoes yielded in Ireland every year? Well you can do that and a lot more onDataMarket.com.Data Market is a new entrant in the data space that just launched globally. It lets you search through different datasets, visualize a them on a graph and compare between datasets. Data Market pulls in 100 million time series from many sources including the UN and World Bank....

The big idea Undergraduate training for data scientists – dubbed thesexiest job of the 21st centuryby Harvard Business Review – falls short in preparing students for the ethical use of data science, our new study found. Data science lies at the nexus of statistics and computer science applied to a particular field such as astronomy, linguistics, medicine, psychology or sociology. The idea behind this data crunching is to use big data to address otherwise unsolvable problems, such as how health care providers can createpersonalized medicine based on a patient’s genesand how businesses can makepurchase predictions based on customers’ behavior....