Big data could revolutionize analytics, databases and enterprise IT.
Chipmaker teams up with Nanyang Technological University to set up a S$4.8 million (US$3.5 million) lab aimed at building up local skillsets in data science and artificial intelligence.
New study says five factors are democratizing data science, potentially easing the talent shortage.
Learn definitions of commonly used terms in smart farming. The terms include Agriculture 4.0, agronomic data, farming-as-a-service, precision agriculture, and more.
Former Quest Software executive joins as the company readies launch of new version of its BI platform.
French company Delair is shifting deeper into managing drones and the data they produce.
At what temperature change inflection point does interest in fleece spike? Fruit of the Loom is using weather data to crunch the numbers and save on marketing.
Despite an increase in the amount of data stored and used in the enterprise, data center automation adoptions appear sluggish. To better understand how companies automate their data centers, including...
IBM AI technology lead, John Smith, and principle research scientist Kush Varshney talk with ZDNet about how the company endeavors to broaden the discipline from “narrow AI” to something more fit for the rigours of industry. Defining what the actual problem is that one is trying to train neural networks for, seems to be a big part of what makes AI work or not work, they suggest.
Cosmos DB's entry level pricing has come way down, opening up the service to a much broader audience. And Azure Machine Learning gets new versatility, including usability from virtually all Python-language programming environments.
With all the hype, one would think that Machine Learning would have dominated the spotlight at re:Invent. Maybe it did, but for us, AWS's announced preview of a hybrid cloud stole our attention.
The Neural Information Processing Systems conference, one of the most prestigious events for machine learning and artificial intelligence, kicked off its 32nd year on Sunday in Montreal with an expo, the first time the show has ever invited large tech companies such as IBM and Microsoft to take show booths and give demonstrations of their research.
AI researchers in Finland compared how well hashtags like "flu" in Instagram posts, and images people put up of flu medication, anticipated the historical public health data for flu outbreak. It's the latest in a number of attempts to use social media as a way to gauge population and health trends.
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of US fraud charges.
The company is looking to remain relevant by analysing data, partnering with startups, and not sparing any technology vertical in its pursuit of what Future Energy looks like.
How can brands best engage with influencers this winter holiday season? New surveys show marketers the way to go.
AWS re:Invent is taking place in Las Vegas this week. Here's a summary of news from Amazon's data, analytics and AI ecosystem partners.
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
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?
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?
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
If you want to track sleep and heart health, these apps will get you going.
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These meddling apps and sneaky strategies help the boss poach your privacy and can even keep you working around the clock.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Increasingly, NASCAR seeks to deliver a sophisticated mix of live race action, data feeds, social network interactions and consumer view point experience choices across multiple screens.
Two-year initiative is expected to kick off by year-end with autonomous vehicles rolling on Chinese roads, following efforts by Ford engineers to equip the vehicles with Baidu's Apollo Virtual Driver System.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has decided to extend its data matching program to look into shareholder data
Vijay Raghavan, executive vice president and chief technology officer Risk and Business Analytics for The RELX Group, talks with Tonya Hall about a balance between analytics and intuition.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan and TechRepublic's Jason Hiner outline how sports provides a great test bed for analytics and what businesses can learn.
Which electronics brands are best for social influence? Check the ranking here.
Chinese e-commerce giant taps its existing network to introduce parcel delivery service across China, enabling consumers to send packages using its mobile app.
Here's a look at how Fortnite approaches analytics and cloud computing.
In a homecoming of sorts, cloud data warehouse pure-play Snowflake's product is no longer an AWS exclusive
Cityhub will allow cities to collect data from buildings, streetlights, cars, factories, CCTV and weather stations to allow municipal governments to set policies and agendas. Read more: https://zd.net/2KFsgbo
The NSW Data Analytics Centre is using Azure to build a machine learning neural network to categorise how the state is spending its AU$30 billion procurement kitty.
Zhe Zhang, manager of Core Big Data at LinkedIn, discusses open source deep learning and artificial intelligence tools used at LinkedIn.
Europe's new privacy regulations are already a success, whether you like it or not.
Paige Bailey, senior cloud developer advocate for Microsoft, talks ML and AI, plus key takeways from PyCon.
Kevin Parker, chairman & CEO of HireVue, discusses utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence to objectively assess employment candidates.
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, the latest update to their post-relational database product.
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.
Displaying images brightly and sharply, this stylish LCD projector is best suited for boardroom presentations. Read our Australian review.
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