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Oracle’s Machine Learning Strategy
20 years after acquiring Thinking Machines, AI and ML have remained among Oracle’s best-kept secrets. Oracle has been internally working with ML to enhance its products, but now it is starting to come out of its shell with the type of product portfolio that one would expect from an enterprise technology provider.
Splunk acquires SignalFx for $1.05 billion
The company announced the deal along with its second quarter financial results, which topped estimates.
Nvidia Rapids cuGraph: Making graph analysis ubiquitous
A new open-source library by Nvidia could be the secret ingredient to advancing analytics and making graph databases faster. The key: parallel processing on Nvidia GPUs.
Cerebras CEO talks about the big implications for machine learning in company’s big chip
Silicon Valley startup Cerebras Systems on Monday unveiled the world's largest chip, designed especially for AI. Cerebras CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman talks with ZDNet about some of the implications for training of deep learning networks.
Honeywell builds out building IoT applications, cybersecurity tools
Honeywell's most recent move adds to its smart buildings software and aims to meld operations and information technologies.
From low code and cloud, to AI and encryption: What you do with data needs to be about more than buzzwords
Just as every company is now a technology company because you can't be in business without technology, every company is a data company - but most companies don't know about data or what to do with it.
An AI privacy conundrum? The neural net knows more than it says
What is output by a neural network, such as an image classifier, is only a small portion of what the network in a sense "knows" about the data. And the prospect that the network is retaining sensitive user data such as social security numbers could open a new area of concern about AI.
CSIRO's Data61 opens Mixed Reality Lab in Melbourne
The lab will allow industries to create digital copies of physical objects, systems, or people.
University of WA secures Microsoft AI grant to help endangered species
Genome testing will now be carried out to save more than one million animals and plants, including Australia's very own quokka.
China top internet firms pump 45% more into R&D
Led by Alibaba, China's top 100 internet companies invested 153.87 billion yuan ($21.85 billion) in research and development last year, up 45% year on year and accounting for 10% of their overall revenue.
eHealth NSW nears completion of electronic medical records system
eHealth NSW said it's part of a 10-year plan to deliver a citizen-centric healthcare system.
Hybrid cloud serves as bridge to our bright all-cloud future
Not everyone is ready for the changes cloud will bring. Hybrid provides an interim step.
G2 opens in-depth reports, drops paywall
The reports, available for registered users, feature grid reports for high level overviews, index reports based on proprietary algorithms that analyze crowdsourced reviews and momentum reports to track innovation cadence.
Kookaburra takes a swing at creating a smart cricket ball
Howzat? A ball that can provide real-time feedback on speed and revolutions could be soon debuting on wickets the world over.
Experian buys MyHealthDirect, expands healthcare data footprint
Healthcare represents about 8% of Experian's customer base. Financial services and direct to consumer are the two largest customer bases.
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.
Cloud data migration worries? Microsoft and Informatica have a plan
Data gravity and cloud war victory are intricately tied, and Microsoft's on the offense. In a tie-up with Informatica, Redmond's going after customers of on-premises data warehouse appliances. Read more: https://zd.net/2TtnWgr
DNA data storage offers great potential for parallel processing
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic. Today, you can run PostgreSQL on DNA. Read more: https://zd.net/2KyplhF
The Industry Cloud: Why It's Next
The industry cloud has taken off and big businesses have been built by the likes of Veeva, Rootstock and others. ZDNet's Karen Roby and James Sanders look at how the industry has thrived even as giants like Salesforce, Oracle and SAP eye their turf.
Retailers are using machine learning to predict which items you’ll return
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray explains that Indian e-commerce startup Myntra, part of Indian retailer Flipkart, has come up with a machine learning approach that can predict when you have items in your online shopping cart that you’re likely to return, and it is experimenting with deterrents such as offering you discounts if you’ll agree not to return those items. Read more: https://zd.net/2K0Aesi
How the latest gaming AI beat world champions of poker
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray tells TechRepublic's Karen Roby that traditional theoretical math approaches break down in multi-person Texas Hold’em poker. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Facebook figured out smart search strategies to get around that problem. Read more: https://zd.net/2Y3DRbb
Report: Despite innovation, data workers struggle in their job
Workers waste half their time searching for and preparing data instead of gaining insights according to a new report.
The transformation of law through technology
Lane Lillquist, co-founder and CTO at InCloudCounsel, discusses how big data and cloud computing are working together to change the way that law is being practiced.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host a 200 petaflop machine
Meet Europe's new supercomputer: MareNostrum 5 takes on global rivals for power. Read more: https://zd.net/2ILlpJQ
Here comes the analytics buying spree. Who's next?
The analytics software space is being consolidated quickly. Here's what it means for customers and why they should watch how the merger dance plays out. Read more: https://zd.net/2WyJgkS
Big data bias: Making metrics more science and less alchemy
Tonya Hall talks to Ketan Gangatirkar, vice president of engineering for job seeker products at Indeed.com, about the potential and the need to create one metric to be commonly used amongst everyone.
Why does AI get a bad rep from the media?
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray tells TechRepublic's Karen Roby about the bad rep that AI gets, not only from reporters, but also from the companies that refuse to talk about what's exactly happening. Read more: https://zd.net/2KbRjS2
One year of GDPR: The impact of digital privacy
One year on from the EU introducing its data protection laws, the impact is spreading around the world. Read more: https://zd.net/2XcbAdG
iRobot 2.0: How the company set itself up for its next-gen robots
iRobot launched the Roomba S9 and Braava Jet M6 with plans for a lawnmower on deck. It took a lot of IoT, data science, product design and cloud to make it all happen. Read more: https://zd.net/2K2L8iU
McLaren's motorsport data learnings are driving innovation in health
The organisation is taking what it has learned in the motorsport industry from capturing data off fast-moving vehicles and applying it to the automotive, public transport, and health industries as well.
What the future looks like as GDPR's one-year anniversary approaches
ZDNet's Danny Palmer sits down with TechRepublic's Karen Roby to break down exactly what GDPR is, what it does, and what the future looks like as its one-year anniversary approaches. Read more: https://zd.net/2X08kC1
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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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