How Big Data Analytics Reveal Your Most Intimate Secrets

Big Data Analytics allow us to automatically analyze digital records such as our updates, photos and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. But did you know that your 'Likes' on Facebook could expose intimate details about you as well as personality traits you might not want to share with anyone? Some things about ourselves we'd rather keep private, right? Most of us don’t openly share with the World sensitive personal attributes such as our sexual preferences,...

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Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage

Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive and time-consuming to import. For a flat fee of $80 per hard drive, Google will take the drive and upload the data into a Cloud Storage bucket. This, Google says, can be “faster or less expensive than transferring data over the Internet.” The service is now in limited preview for users with a U.S.-based return address. Platforms like AWS and Google’s Cloud...

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