Stats Stories for 2013

How Machine Learning Can Transform Online Dating 183
The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users 457
E-Books That Read You 120
Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views 123
Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US 285
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
For First Three Years, Consumer Hard Drives As Reliable As Enterprise Drives 270
IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected 393
270 Million Android Users In China 44
AI Reality Check In Online Dating 192
Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years 90
A Real-Time Map of Travelers Suffering From the Thanksgiving Storm 88
Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought 445
Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows 132
23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers 111
If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript 152
Cloud Storage Comparison: Benchmarking From Afar 49
NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating 284
Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy 487
How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations 152
Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark 246
Rigging Up Baby 117
Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value 95
Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility 182
25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last 277
Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math 264
Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive 141
Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? 73
Robotic Surgery Complications Going Underreported 99
Google Nexus 5 Posts Best Gaming Benchmark Among Android Smartphones 78
Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users 115
30% of Americans Get News From Facebook According To Pew Research Poll 194
How Safe Is Cycling? 947
Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow 161
Debunking the Lorentz System As a Framework For Human Emotions 124
A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? 668
Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper 105
Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Manipulate Online Opinions 115
The Changing Face of Software Development 173
Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 258
Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks 45
GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours 396
Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? 400
What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored 440
Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August 186
Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List 240
How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S. 79
Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth 322
Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year 325
Data Visualization: Too Easy To Be Too Slick? 41
Obama, Romney Data Scientists Strike Out On Their Own 120
Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year 363
Twitter Buzz As an Election Predictor 55
There Is a Fly In My Tweet: Tracking Food-Borne Illness the Crowd-Sourced Way 16
Stop Fixing All Security Vulnerabilities, Say B-Sides Security Presenters 88
NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website 780
Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Funding Trends Low 251
McAfee Exaggerated Cost of Hacking, Perhaps For Profit 105
We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' 355
Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years 118
J.K. Rowling Should Try the Voting Algorithm 128
Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre 125
IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old 121
An Interesting Look At the Performance of JavaScript On Mobile Devices 157
What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program 107
Casting a Jaundiced Eye On AnTuTu Benchmark Claims Favoring Intel 82
Limitations and All, Chromebooks Appear To Be Selling 126
Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share 285
New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH 99
Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers 166
World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 322
The $200,000 Software Developer 473
Genomics Impact On US Economy Approaches $1 Trillion 115
Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating 313
Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal 152
Switzerland Tops IPv6 Adoption Charts; US Lags At 4th 155
No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV 559
Multiple Studies Show Used Electronics Exports To Third World Mostly Good 93
AMD Launches New Mobile APU Lineup, Kabini Gets Tested 102
Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver 252
Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute 83
Firefox 21 Arrives 246
Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US 204
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language 323
Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million 367
Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate 374
Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea? 329
LLNL/RPI Supercomputer Smashes Simulation Speed Record 79
EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps 127
From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' 173
Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style 135
Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday 223
Statistical Errors Keep 4700 K-3rd Students From NYC 'Gifted' Programs 215
Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study 476
Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects 374
Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware 111
Windows 8 Killing PC Sales 1010
Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2% 419
Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence, Suggests Study 184
Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 391
USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise 1121
World's Most Powerful Private Supercomputer Will Hunt Oil and Gas 135
Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News 277
Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps 176
How To Bet Money On Your Future Success 188
Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican 473
The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban 529
With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall 201
We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects 450
Nvidia Tegra 4 Benchmark Results 42
Nate Silver, Microsoft Research Predict the Oscars 67
CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification 174
Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States 160
You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer 185
Interactive Tool Visualizes Tolkien's Works 33
When Google Got Flu Wrong 72
Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior 92
Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study 84
Racism In Online Ad Targeting 474
Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared 468
Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote 165
Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All 332
Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month 250
How the Internet Makes the Improbable Into the New Normal 191
US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World 1063
America's Real Criminal Element: Lead 627
C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index 535
Why "We The People" Should Use Random Sample Voting 141