Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

In the Big Data era, data is not only becoming bigger and bigger; it is also becoming more and more complex. This translates into a spectacular increase of the dimensionality of the data. For example, ...

“Zero-day” attacks may get a lot of attention in the press, but for electric utilities, the reality is that more “mundane” threats pose a far greater risk to their operations. Utilities depend upon ...