It seems everyone is interested in big data these days. From social scientists to advertisers, professionals from all walks of life are singing the praises of data science. In the social sciences, many scholars apparently believe it will lend their subject a previously elusive objectivity and clarity. However, when it comes to the social sciences, big data is a false idol. Read More
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A fashion designer is encouraging others to join her in refusing to create clothing for future First Lady Melania Trump.
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BOSTON (AP) - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is urging President-elect Donald Trump to reverse his decision to tap Sen. Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general.
Warren said by choosing the Alabama Republican, Trump is embracing the bigotry that fueled his campaign rallies instead of distancing himself from it.
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Facebook's fake news frenzy continued as the company came under scrutiny for its debated influence on the U.S. election, LinkedIn was blocked in Russia and a human CRISPR-ed for the first time. Also, the human species has about 1,000 years left according to Stephen Hawking. But do we deserve survival? The existence of Coca-Cola's selfie bottle points toward no. Read More 
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - National open government and public records experts say a policy adopted by the state lawmakers this week keeping all legislative contracts secret from the public makes the state an exception to the rule.
"With regard to general procurement law, this would be an extreme outlier," Emily ...
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I'm not trying to brag or anything (I am), but I comfortably ran a half marathon wearing the first version of the 42mm Apple Watch with a classy, stainless steel band. So, when I heard about Nike's version of the Apple Watch, it's not like I thought, "Finally! I totally need this because running with the regular Apple Watch sucks." That's not to say I… Read More 
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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who briefly challenged Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, will ring in 2017 on his old stomping grounds. His Irish folk-rock band is the scheduled entertainment for the New Year's Eve party at a popular Annapolis music venue.
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Silicon Valley has been lampooned as the place where entrepreneurs like to declare they're "making the world a better place" when they're actually just trying to make money. But now a new initiative called Debug Politics is encouraging the tech industry to live up to the catchphrase — by helping to fix the political system. Jesse Pickard, CEO of "brain… Read More 
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A group of professors at the largest university in the nation's most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students.
Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico are delivering a letter Friday to the school's president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from immigrant ...
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This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Frank Radice, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today's LIVE recording starts at 10:00am PT. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang's Facebook page HERE G3's archive on ustream G3's Facebook page HERE Read More 
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Since its global expansion in January, Netflix has pretty much sat alone as the sole video streaming site to be available in (almost) every country in the world. That situation is looking like it will change very soon, after Amazon teased an international expansion of its own, rival service. Read More 
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