Like seemingly everything else, technology has been taking over the food industry ... we have used the word "cloud" to mean either that the processing happens at some data center or the files ...

I write about the broad intersection of data and society. This word cloud captures the prime debate as a whole, emphasizing words like "one," "people," "think," "want," "know," "I'm," and "right." ...

New York-based BioHitech has developed a device that breaks food waste down into grey water and connects to a cloud system to allow the company to tap the power of big data to monitor and improve ...

"Big Data" hasn't made any of the words-of-the-year lists I've seen so far. That's probably because it didn't get the wide public exposure given to items like "frankenstorm," "fiscal cliff" and YOLO.

Big data is helping create your pizza -- at least in Taiwan, where the latest nontraditional topping features a mash of pig’s blood cake and century eggs. As demand for western fast food boomed ...

Yes, on-premises clusters can get to that cloud-based data too. But the effort and fixed infrastructure required to do that work on-premises is more significant. Overall, Microsoft wants its big ...