When Google hands over e-mail records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and e-mail addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The ...

Remember the movie Hackers? Remember how amazing all of the visualizations looked? (Relatively, this was the ’90s.) Viruses were 3-D blobs eating bank accounts. Servers literally exploded when they ...

Here on terrestrial Earth, the polar vortex is making all of our lives miserable, from frostbite-inducing chills in the North, to snow and ice blanketing Florida, to drivers in Atlanta getting stuck ...

Internet Explorer was once the king of browsers, controlling more than 50 percent of the market for many years. The release of Firefox in 2002 changed that, but even its prominence didn’t last ...

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has shown off a fascinating visualization that tracks the “pulse” of check-ins in New York City and Tokyo at recent events. The company has now posted the clip online so ...

Royal College of Art (RCA) studentJiavu Liu designed an LED installation that reacts to wind pattern data collected from 40 Chinese cities. The real-time data visualization installation, entitled ...