How Election Data Is Collected

The four steps of the election process and data collection at NBC news. Learn how election votes are counted and 2026 ...
Knoxville Daily Sun

WHOI Discovers the Oldest Known Whale Recordings, Dating to 1949

Newswise — Woods Hole, Mass. (February 10, 2026)— Researchers and archivists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI) have identified what may be the earliest preserved recording of a whale ...
SlashGear

Changing 5 Phone Settings Can Limit The Amount Of Data Apps Collect About You

"There's an app for that" was a phrase plastered onto advertisements for the Apple iPhone starting in 2009. Only about a year old at that point, the App Store was changing people's relationship with ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Smith: Snapshot Wisconsin expands to add snow, temperature, sound data

Snapshot Wisconsin, the statewide trail camera project led by the Department of Natural Resources in coordination with about 1,800 volunteers, is expanding. No, not into Minnesota or even that portion ...
IEEE

Contrastive Audio Spectrogram Transformer for Robust Recognition of Environmental Acoustic Signals

Abstract: In recent years, environmental sound classification has become an essential component in intelligent urban monitoring systems, smart infrastructure, and public noise analysis. However, this ...
Forbes

Data Privacy In A World Built To Collect Everything

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Data Privacy Day asks us to be more aware. The harder ...
Tech Digest

TikTok US to collect precise location data

TikTok’s new American entity has updated its privacy policy to allow the collection of precise GPS data from its 200 million users. This change, enacted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, marks a shift ...
IEEE

AST-SED: An Effective Sound Event Detection Method Based on Audio Spectrogram Transformer

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an effective sound event detection (SED) method based on the audio spectrogram transformer (AST) model, pretrained on the large-scale AudioSet for audio tagging (AT ...
TechCrunch

Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane

Anahita Laverack was set on becoming an aerospace engineer, but her career took a different turn after a realization at an autonomous robotics challenge inspired her to launch Oshen, a company that ...
Bleeping Computer

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order

Update Jan. 6, 2026, 1:49 PM ET: After publishing this story, Samsung told BleepingComputer that the Texas court vacated the temporary restraining order that blocked Samsung from collecting smart TV ...
WBUR

Mass. to collect detailed racial and ethnic data, under new state law

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. P.S — Ever wonder why there are so many stone ...