Losing count

IN NORMAL TIMES, THE FIRST Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report. The markets react, the politicians preen, and most Americans go about their

Matt Elton How do the kinds of records created now and in the recent past differ from those left in previous centuries? Jane Winters Records and sources now come in a whole range of formats. In some c

I’ve never had as much engagement with my social media posts as I did when the Data Use and Access Act 2025 (DUA Act) received Royal Assent on 19 June. After waiting since Brexit and the government’s

Synthetic data? What’s that? At the simplest level, synthetic data is the 21st-century equivalent of the “lorem ipsum” placeholder text used in the print industry – a lot of nonsense words with the ap

FEW POLITICAL LEADERS REALIZE THE RATE AT which artificial intelligence is racing ahead. For decades, technological progress has been logged at a pace known as Moore’s Law, named after Gordon Moore, t

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