A Tipping Point in Online Child Abuse

In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record ...

17 New Excel Features for 2026 to Speed up Your Work

Discover 17 new Excel features and functions for 2026, so you track edits and data faster. Including auto-refreshing pivots ...
Ecommerce Fastlane

How to Scrape Amazon Reviews: Coding & No-Coding Ways

A good way to learn about customers' feedback is to scrape Amazon reviews. This detailed guide will show you 2 different ...
Android

Google is Taking SerpApi to Court for Data Scraping on Search Results

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...
MarketWatch

Store loyalty programs are taking your personal data and may use it to charge you more. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...
Morningstar

Store loyalty programs are taking your personal data and may use it to charge you more. Here's how to protect yourself.

Companies have been treating loyalty programs less like reward systems and more like data-harvesting tools. Here's what to ask yourself before signing up for one. Store loyalty programs used to be ...
Reuters

Cloud data startup Eon's valuation surges to $4 billion in latest funding round

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Cloud data-management startup Eon said it has raised $300 million in a new funding round led by Gil Capital and that its valuation has almost tripled to $4 billion.
IEEE

Mining social media data based on Python web crawler technology --Taking Sina Weibo data analysis as an example

Abstract: In the context of the big data era, the extensive penetration of the Internet and the rapid development of database technology have led to an explosive growth in the amount of data generated ...
Kansas City Star

Data centers are wrongly taking the blame for electricity price hikes | Opinion

Sen. Josh Hawley blames increasing demand for costly electric bills. That’s not what’s happening. Getty Images Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is on a mission. He’s out to protect residential electric ...
The Conversation

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
PC Magazine

Banish Spreadsheet Headaches: How I Use ChatGPT as My Excel and Google Sheets Wingman

Save hours on data entry and formula writing with my game-changing AI tips. From the laptops on your desk to satellites in space and AI that seems to be everywhere, I cover many topics at PCMag. I've ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...