Saving Endangered Data From Ancient Rome To Trump’s America

From LA to NYC, groups of scientists, librarians and concerned Americans have rushed to preserve federal data that have begun to disappear from government websites. Even in Ancient Rome, political leaders were fond of destroying records that painted a picture of a reality they couldn’t accept.

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What Googley Medical Data Scientists Hope To Learn By Studying 10,000 Volunteers

Google has described its mission as organizing the world’s information. Today, Verily, the medical arm of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the launch of an ambitious initiative that seeks to collect and analyze extensive data from 10,000 volunteers, in a clinical study called “Baseline.”

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