I didn’t walk into a Guitar Center Standalone Store — I simply called GuitarCenter.com expecting simply to buy a Yamaha S35 keyboard for my 11‑year‑old pianist daughter. What I didn’t expect was to be ...

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, ...