R is regaining attention in 2026, especially in statistics-heavy and research-focused data science work.Python still leads in ...

In a recent paper, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Yuanzhao Zhang and co-author William Gilpin show that a deceptively ...

Jeff Good takes a long, strange trip into swing data and what it can tell us about a hitter, and somehow brings KiNG MALA along for the ride.

Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds: Is mayonnaise an instrument? The question was infamously first posed about 25 years ago by the lovable starfish Patrick on “SpongeBob ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Identity protection company Aura has confirmed that an unauthorized party gained access to nearly 900,000 records containing names and email addresses. The company states that the incident was caused ...

When Pokémon Go debuted in 2016, it became an overnight sensation. From London to New York, it felt as though everyone had installed Niantic's augmented reality Pokémon mobile app and had taken to the ...

The data your smartwatch already collects could soon help flag an early warning sign for type 2 diabetes. Hidden in the patterns of heart rate, sleep and daily activity captured by everyday wearables ...

Philip E. Bourne, founding dean of the School of Data Science and an international leader in the field who positioned the University of Virginia as a pioneering institution for data studies, died ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

Louisiana Economic Development (LED) announced Feb. 23 that Amazon selected the state for $12 billion data center campuses in Caddo and Bossier Parish. LED announced Dec. 17, 2025, that West Feliciana ...