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                • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
                  Aerospace & Defence
                  Nasa signals turn to data-driven approach in search for UFOs

                  US space agency may enlist ‘citizen scientists’ in drive to find out more about unexplained anomalous phenomena

                  Gimbal is one of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon that has been through the official declassification review process of the United States government and has been approved for public release
                • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
                  Technology sector
                  Data sovereignty push boosting demand for digital infrastructure, says NTT

                  Greater focus on location of storage in Europe means more facilities are required, according to Japanese group

                  Abhijit Dubey
                • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
                  FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
                  Graphic: How machines learn

                  Machine learning works in the same way as human learning: repeating a process and making adjustments after mistakes, to gradually improve outcomes

                • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
                  FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
                  The FT AI glossary

                  Want to know the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning? Or the definition of God-like AI? Look it up here

                • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
                  Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
                  Care homes in Japan use big data to boost caregivers and lighten workloads

                  Nursing facility operator Sompo is tapping technology to help solve staff shortages

                • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
                  Visual story
                  Subsea cables: how the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing

                  Driven by fears of espionage and geopolitical tensions, experts say the infrastructure underpinning the internet is in danger of dividing into eastern and western blocks

                • Friday, 12 May, 2023
                  ReviewNon-Fiction
                  Knowing What We Know — one mind’s account of how we store information

                  Simon Winchester takes a lively, digressive look at how humans have ordered and passed on knowledge over time

                  A clay tablet shows a series of lines and symbols
                • Friday, 27 May, 2022
                  Benedict Evans
                  There is no such thing as ‘data’

                  What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application

                  Rory Griffiths illustration showing a person’s hand superimposed on geometric shapes and percentage figures
                • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
                  InterviewWomen in business
                  Birgit Troy: the tech start-up scene proves hard to resist

                  The COO’s goal at Canadian data provider Canalyst is to maintain its triple-digit growth

                  A short-haired woman, arms crossed, looking away from the camera. Trees in the background
                • Monday, 28 March, 2022
                  Customer data platforms step up to the challenge of cyber crime

                  New systems let businesses record every touchpoint with consumers — but must add extra security

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                • Monday, 31 January, 2022
                  Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
                  Big Tech jockeys for position in scramble for health data primacy

                  As medics strive to harness health information, Silicon Valley is stepping in with tools, though regulation is a concern

                  Vision of the future: Virtual reality is among the technologies making inroads into clinical care
                • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
                  Lex
                  Data: attempts to trade information like any other commodity fall short Premium content

                  Products on Shanghai Data Exchange are not only limited but also have multiple restrictions

                  A face outlined with binary data to illustrate the concept of Big Data
                • Monday, 13 December, 2021
                  Trade Secrets
                  Can Big Data help fix the supply chain crisis? Premium content

                  Information on global logistics has suddenly got a lot more valuable, but knowledge gaps remain

                  Business visualisation of artificial intelligence
                • Monday, 13 December, 2021
                  Pooja Rao
                  Health tech industry learns true value of medical data

                  With the emergence of artificial intelligence, health data has become gold

                • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
                  Lex
                  Left-field data: lift trips nail office use better than financial reports Premium content

                  Data from Finnish group Kone underline the growing power of unconventional data to reveal behavioural trends

                  A person uses a lift
                • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
                  Lex
                  China big data/AI: $470bn expansion will offer safe bets for investors Premium content

                  A fresh batch of companies could recreate the success of Beijing’s first generation of listed tech giants

                  Illustration of big data and automation technology on a virtual screen
                • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
                  Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
                  Antibiotic accountability: how countries and companies perform

                  FT dashboard tracks responses to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance

                • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
                  China
                  China blocks access to shipping location data

                  Number of identification signals drops dramatically after new data law is introduced

                  Montage of a container ship and  aerial photograph of Shanghai
                • Friday, 19 November, 2021
                  HMRC chief insists new data grab will bring taxpayer benefits

                  ‘If we’d had the data during the pandemic, we could have helped more people’

                  Jim Harra, HMRC chief executive
                • Monday, 25 October, 2021
                  Healthcare
                  Ungoverned digital advances undermine global healthcare gains

                  Too much is at stake for the future of health and wellbeing to leave digital transformations unregulated

                • Monday, 25 October, 2021
                  Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
                  Tougher public safeguards urged for digital health data

                  Lancet report argues that governments should limit data extraction of powerful tech companies

                • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
                  Lex
                  Flood risks: big data is helping business keep its head above water Premium content

                  As threat to wealth and health grows, expect predictive technology to become equally vital

                  The town of Tewkesbury surrounded by floodwaters
                • Monday, 20 September, 2021
                  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
                  Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans for digital dictatorship

                  Beijing has pushed through reams of regulations and policies to shore up China’s data security

                • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
                  Undercover EconomistTim Harford
                  How to spot scientists who peddle bad data

                  Fraudulent research wastes the time of scientists who try to build on it and the money of agencies who support it

                • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
                  The Big Read
                  China and Big Tech: Xi’s blueprint for a digital dictatorship

                  By controlling a huge volume of data, Beijing is conducting a grand experiment in 21st century authoritarian governance

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