More than 300 exabytes of data are created every day. To put that number into perspective, one exabyte equals one billion ...

The use of drones designed to capture wide-view photos and footage with a first-person view has become widespread among rescue services and mappers as well as ordinary members of the public.

Huddled at a pair of desktops in the corner of a Twin Oaks Middle School computer lab, eighth-graders Brooklyn Rentschler and Abby Gogolin mapped zebra-mussel-infested waters across Minnesota.