by Brian MacIver | Oct 28, 2015 | Entertainment
Data analytics can help musicians and other artists track their audiences’ demographics, song preferences and online or in-store music purchases – showing the power and usefulness of data to pick popular singles from a recently released album and even set up a tour...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 22, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) — In August, authorities arrested a 15-year-old near Philadelphia for allegedly plotting an attack on Pope Francis during his U.S. visit. The boy, said to have been inspired by Islamic State propaganda, used “social media to share...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 22, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Nearly 3,000 roadway deaths could be prevented worldwide every day if humans could be removed from the driving equation. Nobody’s talking about taking people out of their cars, but rather, taking them out of the driver’s seat. Every year, more than 1.2...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 15, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Ashton Carter defended President Barack Obama’s decision to keep 5,500 troops in Afghanistan through 2017 in a briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday. But reaction to the announcement was mixed. Obama announced earlier Thursday that the...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 13, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – In the box office hit “The Martian,” Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who manages to survive and even grow plants on the barren planet. But that is nothing compared with what NASA really has in mind for Earth’s planetary neighbor. NASA has...
