As data becomes the most valuable product in a growing tech-dependent world, data security concerns are on the rise.

Focus on cybersecurity, rather than crackdown on dissent

It can prepare us for the nation’s present and future needs

Why should you care about your privacy and digital footprint?

An informed public health professional will argue that public health is half medical and half data. Without data, any health system is effectively blind. Data provides visibility into public health emergencies and non-emergencies alike. It saves lives. It tells us where the government needs to pour its funds and which areas to mobilise resources in. It helps identify gaps in healthcare and measure outcomes. Indeed, data is the eyes and ears of public health.

An economy without an independent source of data is like an aircraft flying without its airspeed sensors.

The first industrial revolution was triggered by the steam engine, whereas the second and third ones were driven by mass production and the microprocessor, respectively.

Japan's economy slid back into recession in July-September as uncertainty over the overseas outlook hurt business investment.

A pact that helped the tech giants and others send personal data from the EU to the US has been ruled invalid.

New pictures have been released from the New Horizons probe’s flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.

Growing demand for more information about the products we buy could mean the end of the simple barcode - the blocks of black and white stripes that adorn most objects for sale and are scanned five billion times a day.

Latest data suggests factory activity in China shrank at its fastest pace in more than six years in August.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found a way to encode data onto DNA—the very same stuff that all living beings’ genetic information is stored on—that could survive for millennia