New companies promise to tear down the barriers to data collection and sharing by encouraging patients to give away their ...

Using smartphones to collect users’ health data may improve medical research, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis by writer Charles Wallace. Recent studies, many of which were conducted on ...

A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time (or rather, lack thereof). Collecting data has been super helpful – and it ...

Collecting data on embedded emissions in imports offers a broader and more accurate picture of a country’s carbon footprint, enables informed climate policies, and—with some carrots and sticks—can ...

Meta will soon begin “collecting anonymized data” from users of its Quest headsets, a move that could see the company aggregating information about hand, body, and eye tracking; camera information; ...