Stories by edward

Does Uber substitute for cabs or attract new riders? It depends where you live

Tiny balls of fire: A nanotechnological accident may lengthen battery lives

Can big databases be kept both anonymous and useful?

Three new papers examine fears that machines will put humans out of work

Google Knowledge Graph Adds Movie Reviews

Crackdowns Haven't Stopped the Dark Web's $100M Yearly Drug Sales

Gitfs

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Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you

Open data can unravel the complex dealings of multinationals

My father’s railroad photographs now benefit the world, free of charge

Drone's heroin delivery to Ohio prison yard prompts fight among inmates

Going 4K

On Countries, Citizenships, Residence and Paying Taxes

How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos

Never mind driverless cars – we need intelligent transport systems

Sharing a million photographs

Difficult social problems are still difficult problems

Be careful with errno

Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers