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Rockset takes a deeper dive into enterprise data pool
Rockset is making a pitch to MySQL and PostgreSQL developers with a cloud service to offload analytics at a fraction of the cost of cloud data warehouses.
AQUA for Amazon Redshift goes GA
With AQUA, Amazon Redshift travels full-circle to delivering an elastic data warehouse, at least for cooler data.
Apache Software Foundation retires slew of Hadoop-related projects
Retirements of 13 big data-related Apache projects -- including Sentry, Tajo and Falcon -- have been announced in 11 days. It looks like the idealistic days of Hadoop and big data are officially over.
Cloudera Data Platform to integrate with Nvidia's accelerated Apache Spark 3.0 libraries
According to Cloudera, the integration will accelerate data pipelines and make it easier to add machine learning workflows to processes.
Ryde stays focus on Singapore, eyes IPO for service expansion
After running trials in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, the carpooling app platform now wants to focus its attention on its domestic Singapore market where it hopes a targeted IPO in 2022 will fund its ambition of growing its user base and product offerings.
The five Vs of customer data platforms
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) are the hottest marketing technology today, offering companies a way to capture, unify, activate, and analyze customer data. There are five critical things to think about when developing a successful CDP strategy.
Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL
Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that.
Redis Labs surpasses $2B valuation with latest funding round
With its $110 million Series G financing, Redis Labs has doubled its valuation from August 2020.
MinIO simplifies onramps to do-it-yourself hybrid cloud object storage
The partnership with VMware has spurred MinIO to make its software-defined cloud object storage more accessible to mainstream enterprises. Now, you don’t have to be a Kubernetes expert to deploy it.
Trifacta goes all in on the cloud
The last of the independent data prep players still standing is now making a major pivot to the cloud that will take the equivalent of its Google Cloud Dataprep service across AWS and Azure. Beyond data prep, the new Trifacta cloud service will cover data cleansing, validation, profiling, and monitoring of data pipelines.
Google Cloud hires SAP alum Kazmaier, unifies database, data analytics, Looker units
Kazmaier was President of SAP HANA & Analytics and led SAP's global product, solution and engineering teams for database, data warehousing and analytics.
NASA satellites to watch the world's farms
Earth-observing satellites are scrutinizing soil health and crop performance in new high tech partnership.
Cloudera Data Platform hits Google Cloud
Cloudera Data Platform was already living large on AWS, Azure and on-prem. Now it's added Google Cloud to its collection. Will the third time be the charm?
Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future
GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how.
Cloudera fills gap in streaming platform with SQL
Cloudera is the latest to join the bandwagon for offering SQL-based real-time streaming analytics.
Azure Synapse Analytics data lake features: up close
Microsoft has added a slew of new data lake features to Synapse Analytics, based on Apache Spark. It also integrates Azure Data Factory, Power BI and Azure Machine Learning. These features are still in public preview, but that's good enough for us to take a visual tour of what's new.
Pitfalls to Avoid when Interpreting Machine Learning Models
Modern requirements for machine learning models include both high predictive performance and model interpretability. A team of experts in explainable AI highlights pitfalls to avoid when addressing model interpretation, and discusses open issues for further research. Images created by Cristoph Molnar: https://twitter.com/ChristophMolnar/status/1281272026192326656
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.
How Levi's is melding AI, data, fashion, and retail
ZDNet catches up with Katia Walsh, chief strategy and AI officer at Levi Strauss, about building an AI team, spreading knowledge about machine learning, and the intersection of algorithms, creativity, retail, and fashion. Read more: https://zd.net/2NQKWYu
Three reasons business pros and CIOs should care about CES 2021
CES is as much a showcase for the latest business technology as it is for consumer electronics. Enterprise technologies like AI, data analytics, and 5G underpin the latest IoT gadgets, smart devices, and autonomous vehicles and will be on full display at the all digital CES 2021.
Cerebras claims no cluster of machines can match it
Tiernan Ray explains startup Cerebras Systems of Los Altos, California, has built a computer using a single chip the size of an entire silicon wafer. The company has released a scientific paper claiming it can perform scientific problems in computational fluid dynamics in a speed so fast that no existing clustered computer can match it. Read more: https://zd.net/363fVqJ
In a data-centric world, you need to learn about business analytics
Data shows that data-driven organizations perform better. But what does it take to get there?
Tableau public sector head shares insights on what today's governments want in data analytics
ZDNet's Bill Detwiler talks with USAF Brig. Gen. (Ret) Steven Spano who is regional VP for Public Sector at Tableau about what the company's government customers are asking for in a data analytics platform.
The 5 barriers to AI adoption (and how to overcome them)
In both the public and private sectors, these are the barriers to meaningful adoption of artificial intelligence.
GDPR: A basic introduction to EU’s digital privacy laws
General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is here. Here's what it means, how it impacts individuals and businesses - and how to ensure compliance.
NSW government taps into AI and satellite data for bushfire detection and prevention
Elsewhere, the state government is making technology upgrades to the Sydney rail network.
Axon CEO: How technology can help enable police reform
To make the right decisions in critical circumstances, law enforcement needs solid data delivered in real-time. Axon CEO Rick Smith explains technology's role in police reform, community involvement in product design, and digital transformation. Read more: https://zd.net/3gtuJAG
Singapore parks $182M for fintech innovation, with special focus on AI
Country rolls out new three-year plan with SG$250 million ($182.1 million) investment to drive technology innovation in the financial services industry, which saw 40 innovation labs and 1,000 fintech companies set up in the last five years.
Google to introduce earthquake detection alerts to Android
The company believes Android phones can act as mini seismometers.
Navy and PTC retire old systems, deploy digital twins
PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann and Paul Koester, model based product support program manager for the US Navy, walk through the lessons learned in utilizing 3D data, change management, digital twins and going to the cloud while retiring paper-based processes.
AI is not neutral but this software solution can help reduce the bias
Rooting out implicit bias in AI is fundamental to ensuring an equitable society. Is it even possible? Samasource's AI Bias Detection says it is.
MIT's machine learning system can predict limits in COVID-19 vaccine designs
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.
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.
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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