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Data wants to be free and Microsoft is arranging a breakout

With all that’s going on right now, doesn’t it seem strange sometimes to see the world is still spinning around out there? But, while we’re locked up information data is flowing all around us and creating larger information clouds with every tick of a clock. Microsoft has just kicked off the Open Data Campaign which calls free access to data ...

Kathleen Maher

With all that’s going on right now, doesn’t it seem strange sometimes to see the world is still spinning around out there? But, while we’re locked up information data is flowing all around us and creating larger information clouds with every tick of a clock. Microsoft has just kicked off the Open Data Campaign which calls free access to data for AI research all around the world and the company warns of a digital divide that threatens to lock up data behind the borders of powerful countries and rich companies. The exploitation of big data has transformed the business of
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