Agricultural data is “fragmented, distributed, heterogeneous, and incompatible.” That’s the verdict from a major Council for Agricultural Science and Technology report published barely a year ago, and ...

A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists. By Ben Casselman An obscure methodological change lowered a key measure of ...

Microsoft MSFT1.95%increase; green up pointing triangle is betting on healthcare as a path to become more competitive in artificial intelligence. The company’s biggest push yet: a new tool it ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

The Oct. 27, 2025, article “Novels vs. Excerpts: What to Know About a Big Reading Debate ” and related reporting about reading instruction resonated with me. I’m fortunate enough to spend time in ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Soroosh Khodami discusses why we aren't ready ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Built-in functions, UDFs, materialized results, and integrations with ML and AI models make streaming SQL a compelling choice when building microservices. “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andrew Harmel-Law and a panel of expert ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...