Customer data cloud startup Amperity Inc. is joining the agentic artificial intelligence party, launching Chuck Data, an AI agent that specializes in customer data engineering. Announced today, Chuck ...

There’s been a big push in recent years to get students coding. Before that, the big skill was learning to use word processing software. And before that, typing. Now there’s a movement to bring the ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now the cloud and technologies such as object storage ...

R imports files is when the program reads an external file into memory and uses it in code to perform different manipulations and calculations. There are two different ways of doing this - using the ...

Government agencies are awash in documents. Many of these documents are paper-based, but even for the electronic documents a human is still often needed to process and understand those documents to ...

Much has been written about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. Current estimates place data centers at consuming nearly 3% of the world’s total electricity – on par with ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...