Data has become one of today's most important business assets, and data science enables us to turn this data into value. In the field, we see fast evolutions and new advances, especially in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Here, we look at the five biggest data science trends for 2022.

In a world where new startups seem to emerge weekly, CIOs are challenged to make sense of the data market. Let alone decide which technology paradigm to bet on as they build their “modern data stack”.

While services like Uber built businesses that compete with cities’ transportation networks, Via sees a lucrative niche catering to—and working with—municipalities.

The SNIA SDC HDD session gave insights on how to use multi-actuator HDDs, including software implementations. Methods to optimize HDD performance and tail latency were discussed. Backblaze, Seagate and NetApp provided insights on HDD failures and how to control them.

Ambitious data initiatives or programs can take time to deploy and rollout. Change fatigue can often set in and derail their progress. However, by targeting quick wins, you can show incremental value to the organization and build momentum for your data initiatives.

Zadara zStorage for ZenLayer and Cloudian’s Streaming Feature Store provide storage for data protection and real time data interpretation at the edge.

In light of recent scrutiny on its internal practices, Facebook reiterated its content guidelines Thursday, saying it reduces the reach of posts containing clickbait, misinformation, “low quality” video and links to untrustworthy news articles.

The risk for organizations looking to create effective work practices in the era of remote working is dark data i.e. information silos where a firm fails to have full knowledge of any single piece of data’s contents, location, owner, access history, or whether it contains sensitive information.

CEO Rema Matevosyan and her cofounders see balloons as a cheaper, carbon-free geospatial mapping alternative to plane flights and satellites. Their startup, Near Space, could help track real estate, urban planning and recovery from natural disasters.

Over the first four years of the Forbes Blockchain 50, the list of billion-dollar companies making meaningful use of the technology popularized by bitcoin, has become a bellwether of institutional adoption.

The technology can provide critical information about a vehicle's surroundings regardless of bad weather or poor cellular connectivity that can interfere with lidar and GPS.

Magnetic tape remains the most cost effective, low energy digital storage technology. Many data centers, including large hyperscale data centers, use magnetic tape. LTO-9 boost native capacity to 18TB with 400MB/s native data rates and a native tape cartridge cost of less than half a cent per GB.

A new report from Splunk examines the role of data, and the importance of data maturity and innovation for helping companies achieve and maintain a competitive edge.

South Korea’s competition watchdog handed Google one of its highest-ever fines for forcing smartphone manufacturers to use its Android operating system.

The world is full of poor data connectivity, misaligned data structures and information silos that sit at incongruent points on the global information exchange compass. We need tools to auto-generate business processes and streamline data structures for better user experiences.

Lidar developer Cepton is going public through a SPAC merger valued at $1.5 billion and in its SEC filing revealed that its technology has been selected by GM.

An uncrewed, solar-powered aircraft from Skydweller Aero will fly 90-day missions with an on-board analytic system capable of rapidly processing the vast amounts of data it collects.

Synthetic data in the context of AI vision systems refers to annotated images that have been created from computer generated, photo-realistic, 3D environments containing objects, things, people (or anything).

There have been massive increases in online searches for ivermectin, an antiparasitic repeatedly determined to be of no benefit in treating or preventing Covid-19, in areas with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.

With edicts denoting where data needs to exist spanning the US, Europe and further beyond, companies clearly need to think about what nation their data resides in.