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Apache Cassandra’s road to the cloud
Taking open source databases to the cloud usually involves proprietary extensions. Could the Apache Cassandra community rewrite the script?
Singapore sets up research institute to boost fintech capabilities
Slated to begin operations by year-end, the Asian Institute of Digital Finance will aim to link up research, education, and entrepreneurship and pool expertise across several areas including payments, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.
Data privacy and data security are not the same
It's not just semantics. Companies that fail to understand the differences between data privacy and data security put their brands and bottom lines in jeopardy.
Hasura introduces a GraphQL-based data virtualization cloud
GraphQL, the “little JSON data interface that could,” has now attracted a company to build a data virtualization service around it.
Muru Music looks to launch AI music therapy platform
Using music as a brain stimulant for the ageing population.
In the wake of overnight digital transformation, demand for technology skills training surges
Under pressure, companies ramp up technology skills training, but more is needed, especially for artificial intelligence. Those wanting to self-educate have many online options. Also, no-code to the rescue?
MIT’s machine learning designed a COVID-19 vaccine that could cover a lot more people
Not all vaccines for COVID-19 will cover everyone, in fact many may have large gaps. A novel, large-scale machine learning project at MIT designed one that might protect many more people.
We've forgotten the most important thing about AI. It's time to remember it again
AI doesn't have agency, it doesn't look human, and it is actually still pretty restricted. But most of us have forgotten that.
Technologists and business leaders don't see eye to eye on artificial intelligence
Executives don't see AI deployments scaling to the extent that technologists on the ground see it, survey finds.
Ocean Protocol delivers blockchain-based decentralized data orchestration for Daimler AG
Monetising enterprise data by using the blockchain means companies can now share data whilst maintaining control of their network.
Smartphone usage patterns can reveal your personality type: Research
Employers are increasingly using AI-based psychological profiling as part of their hiring processes. That's a labour rights issue, and it should worry us.
New Zealand establishes algorithm charter for government agencies
A standards guide on how to use algorithms across government.
Changing how consumers experience products, brands
In this followup piece from a two-part feature, we explore how the global pandemic has impacted the way products are showcased and brands engage consumers as well as opened up new doors for some online players.
Traditional businesses finally embrace digital, but still face limits
In this first piece from a two-part feature, we look at how businesses once resistance to digital are finally turning to such tools to address challenges brought about by the global pandemic, but the devil's in the application and there are limits to how much they can gain from going online.
Data governance and context for evidence-based medicine: Transparency and bias in COVID-19 times
In the early 90s, evidence-based medicine emerged to make medicine more data-driven. Three decades later, we have more data, but not enough context, or transparency.
When chatbots are a very bad idea
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
How ubiquitous AI will permeate everything we do without our knowledge.
Most of us do not know that we are using chatbots to talk to service agents, so how will we know that AI will be seamlessly interacting in with our future lives?
Streaming becomes mainstream
The endless streams of data generated by applications lends its name to this paradigm, but also brings some hard to deal with requirements to the table: How do you deal with querying semantics and implementation when your data is not finite, what kind of processing can you do on such data, and how do you combine it with data from other sources or feed it to your machine learning pipelines, and do this at production scale?
Photos: How FC Barcelona uses football player data to win games
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
Heart and sleep apps that work with the Apple Watch
If you want to track sleep and heart health, these apps will get you going.
Azure HDInsight click-by-click guide: Get cloud-based Hadoop up and running today
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Hands-on with Azure Data Lake: How to get productive fast
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
Photos: From facial recognition to connected toys, a trip inside the invisible big data revolution
This new exhibition at London's Science Museum looks to help people explore the "invisible revolution of big data" and inspire the data scientists of the future.
How to talk about the singularity and look smart doing it
Computers are smarter than you think, but will they soon think smarter than you? Plenty of big names in science say so...and that it's only a matter of when.
You need to follow these 20 big tech thinkers right now
Whether you're in the C-suite of a Fortune 500 tech company or starting the next unicorn in your garage, these 20 tech thinkers have valuable insights you need to hear.
All the high-tech ways your boss is trying to own your soul
These meddling apps and sneaky strategies help the boss poach your privacy and can even keep you working around the clock.
UNSW to visualise data sets using DomeLab
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
Inside CERN's datacenter helping the Large Hadron Collider probe the Big Bang: Photos
As well as acting as the hub for a grid of scientific institutions around the world, CERN's datacenter has to cope with vast amounts of raw data from its particle physics experiments.
Digital deluge: 12 NASA missions that keep delivering the 'Big' in data
Earlier this month, New Horizons joined the US space agency's many dozens of other far-flung unmanned probes that are already gathering a combined 30 terabytes of data daily from the near and far reaches of our solar system.
IBM's Chef Watson mixing big data with Bon Appétit foodie favorites
There's no better way to put Chef Watson to the test than actually putting on an apron, heading down to the kitchen and taste whatever big data actually has to offer.
Psychological targeting: Smartphone usage data can predict user's personality type
Research shows that smartphone usage patterns can reveal four of the five key personality traits.
Chipmaker Graphcore enters the market for dedicated AI server computers
The company makes the case its computers are vastly cheaper than equivalent processing power from Nvidia.
Companies generate large troves of data but most of it goes to waste, survey
A new survey from Seagate and IDC reveals what challenges enterprises will need to address before they can better leverage the data they're collecting
Could data-driven solutions help end mass incarceration?
Amid escalating calls for a sweeping criminal justice rethink, do well-meaning technologists have a role to play?
Queensland designs heat mapping tool to prepare for the next natural disaster
The Repeat Events and Dollars Index uses geocoded data to identify infrastructure most likely at risk of damage during natural disaster events.
MIT paper: Risk of dying from COVID-19 as a result of flying is higher than plane crash risk
Airlines could minimize that risk by leaving open the middle seat, but airlines including United and American refuse to do so. Plans for a post-COVID-19 world, moreover, suggest flights may be even more crowded.
A surprising way technology can help end mass incarceration
Greg Nichols says that data is a powerful tool. So why don't prosecutors have access to it? Read more: https://zd.net/2AVv6W1
Salesforce Anywhere isn't just about collaboration, it's about helping people work better together
Michael Machado, VP of product management at Salesforce talks to Bill Detwiler about Salesforce Anywhere, a new product announced at TrailheaDX 2020 designed to help companies improve workforce collaboration.
Tableau's roadmap: Deeper Salesforce integration, Einstein integration, and easier visualizations
Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer at Tableau, talked with Bill Detwiler about how the integration with Salesforce is going post acquisition, the product roadmap for Tableau, and how data visualizations can help respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CSIRO and Goanna Ag bring smart sensors to help farmers improve crop water usage
The analytics will help farmers measure the water stress of their crops in real time.
The smartphone may be the new frontier in COVID-19 testing
Tiernan Ray says a scientist at University of Cincinnati is developing a simple-stripped down test for COVID-19 that can be done with some plastic tubes, a heating lamp, and a smartphone. Read more: https://zd.net/3fErdU1
Google Maps to help users navigate COVID-19 restrictions when traveling
It will send out COVID-19 transit alerts to help users avoid crowded public transport and road closures due to travel restrictions.
Honeywell Connected Enterprise CEO Que Dallara on industrial IoT, SAP partnership
Honeywell is connecting its Forge platform with SAP Cloud in a move to meld operational and financial data to better manage real estate. Read more: https://zd.net/2AbtdEx
France develops its own contact-tracing app bypassing Apple and Google's protocol
StopCovid will not use the API put forward by Apple and Google.
DoE’s Argonne Lab super-charges COVID-19 drug discovery with AI
Tiernan Ray says the Argonne National Laboratory is accelerating its use of neural networks to find cures for COVID-19 -- with the help of a super-fast computer from Silicon Valley startup Cerebras Systems. Read more: https://zd.net/3gwAuyS
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TIBCO Spotfire Mobile Metrics review: No-fuss KPI delivery to your mobile device
Spotfire Mobile Metrics can collate and analyse your BI data and deliver the key metrics needed to monitor business performance direct to a notebook, smartphone or tablet.
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007, the latest update to their post-relational database product.
IBM DB2 9
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
InFocus LP640
Displaying images brightly and sharply, this stylish LCD projector is best suited for boardroom presentations. Read our Australian review.
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