In a recent commentary published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, UB geographic information science expert Yingjie Hu and colleague Ruo-Qian Wang wrote about how Twitter’s decision to remove ...

Twitter, at its most base level, is merely a means for individuals to share small snippets, links, and pictures with a wider audience, helping sort them via the judicial use of hashtags. It has many ...

An international group of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live in a matter of minutes, with more than 90 percent accuracy. It ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Whipping out your smartphone to snap and post online pictures of yourself and your kids relaxing at home — or perhaps that pricey new TV you just hung on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In a recent commentary published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, University at Buffalo geographic information science expert Yingjie Hu and colleague Ruo-Qian Wang wrote about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the unfortunate truisms of the “big data” era is how much of the ...

We've seen heat maps from Foursquare before, but we haven't seen anything from Twitter in a while. However, the micro-blogging service showed off a handful of heat maps today that map out all ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

A new study suggests that parents and carers could be putting children at risk if they upload digital photos that are automatically "geotagged" by their camera. A study published in the International ...

Flickr has over 90 million geotagged photos right now. With all the smartphones (we need a new word for that!) with GPS and cameras on the market more and more photos are automatically geotagged. So ...

Apparently ISIS doesn't have an IQ test as part of its admission standards. A New Zealand man believed to have joined ISIS accidentally revealed his location by geotagging 45 of his tweets. Abu ...