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Just how much do design and data science collaborate?
Findings from our recent survey show that there's room for improvement.
There's more to Google than Google: Dataset Search comes out of beta
The company's search engine is designed for researchers, but casual users are advised to give it a go.
Artificial intelligence works its way into supply chains
AI 'takes over the heavy lifting traditionally done by humans. It delivers deep analysis down to the SKU level, not practical with a manual approach.'
MongoDB GraphQL release points to broader revamp of serverless platform
With support of the GraphQL lightweight query language entering preview, MongoDB is taking the next step toward a broader evolution of its serverless application cloud platform with a nod to mobile and web apps.
How machine learning is helping Credit Karma reintroduce itself to users
The personal finance company is hoping a new ML-based service will shift the perception of Credit Karma beyond that of just a credit score app.
Can AI put humans back in the loop?
Scientists at Germany's Technische Universität Darmstadt have developed a procedure for a human domain expert to look at the inner workings of an AI model as it is trained to solve a simple problem, and to correct where the machine goes wrong. Can it work for more complex problems?
ThoughtSpot adds execs from Tableau, DataRobot, MongoDB and others
The independent BI player, known for its focus on search-driven analytics, adds a cast of executive characters from around the analytics and tech worlds. ZDNet spoke with three of them, along with ThoughtSpot's co-founder, on where they find themselves and where they want ThoughtSpot to head.
Will Google’s more-efficient ‘Reformer’ mitigate or accelerate the arms race in AI?
Google’s latest refinement to the popular “Transformer” language model promises to make state of the art available to those with a smaller computer budget. But the advances could just as well be used with those commanding vast compute resources to squeeze even more performance out of the biggest machines.
Singapore public sector called out for recurring IT lapses
Country's government agencies must resolve repeated lapses and plug weaknesses in IT controls, especially given the speed at which new IT systems are implemented, says government committee responsible for assessing how public funds are used.
Are screens harmful? This project wants to record everything you do on your phone, to find out
Precisely mapping the doings of our digital selves is the only way to understand online behavior.
5 technology trends for the roaring 20s, part 2: AI, Knowledge Graphs, infinity and beyond
You don't have to be a fortune teller to identify AI as the key trend for the 2020s. But there is nuance regarding AI hardware and software that deserves to be highlighted.
AI can fight climate change but there's a catch: Optimization doesn't automatically equal emissions reduction
Luminaries of AI such as Yoshua Bengio gathered in Vancouver last month to champion ways machine learning can mitigate global warming. Despite energy, enthusiasm, and brilliant ideas, the work may still need lots of regulation to make sure greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.
Semantics and virtualization, data integration and data governance on the way to the cloud
It's official - data analytics is swiftly moving to the cloud. AtScale is facilitating this, and CEO Chris Lynch shares his insights the hows and whys, in light of the unveiling of AtScale's Adaptive Analytics 2020.1
DevOps and observability in the 2020s
What do the data tell us on the direction modern software development is going? Cloud, open source, machine learning -- it's all here, but blind spots remain.
MariaDB Platform X4 adds cloud-first, columnar storage
New MariaDB Platform X4 release supports hybrid operational/analytical "smart transactions," standardizes on cloud object storage to do it.
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.
What can AI do to fight global warming?
Tiernan Rays tells Karen Roby that some of the brightest minds in AI last month gathered in Vancouver to propose technology to fight global warming. Despite the brilliance of the inventions, other factors such as policy will be necessary to reduce carbon emissions swiftly. Read more: https://zd.net/373YMLj
A peek at Neon, the artificial humanoid created by Samsung
The biggest crowds at CES 2020 were at the Neon booth to check out the new project from Star Labs. The humanoid AI bot is meant to serve as a companion if you need a friend. Read more: https://zd.net/2FtsBZI
Australian government looks to trial IoT sensors to keep energy use in check
It will also develop a data hub to store all of the collected information in real time.
Integrating big data and the weather
Dr. Kevin Petty, director of science and forecast operations in public/private partnerships at The Weather Company, explains to Tonya Hall the benefit of using IBM's Watson, Blue Thunder, and GPU-based processing platforms to integrate big data into weather predictions.
Google’s AI makes memory a game
Tiernan Ray explains how DeepMind, a unit of Google that develops ambitious AI projects, found a way to stimulate the kind of long-term planning of risk and reward that humans do by turning memory into a game of actions and future payoffs. Read more: https://zd.net/2YEyR9W
Transport for NSW trials smart parking system at Opal Park&Ride car parks
Commuters will be provided an approximate number of parking spaces available to help them better plan their trips.
Qantas CIO looks to cloud, AI, and data to manage flight disruptions
The Australian airline carrier is now able to manage flight disruptions in minutes -- not hours.
Woodside Energy signs AI and quantum computing deal with IBM
Woodside plans to use the technologies to develop an 'intelligent plant' and reduce its plant maintenance costs by 30%.
Canberra commits AU$8.5m to develop national freight data hub
The Australian government also wants industry input on the design of this data hub.
Google thinks I'm single. How do I tell my wife?
Chris Matyszczyk explains that Google is revealing what it tells advertisers about you. It doesn't seem too accurate. Read more: https://zd.net/2WzM7vp
Virtus Health taps into artificial intelligence to improve IVF success rates
With the help of Harrison-AI, the IVF clinic is preparing to commence trials to validate the use of AI for IVF treatments.
Canberra gives AU$32m for autonomous decision-making research
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society will investigate responsible, ethical, and inclusive autonomous decision-making technologies.
This new memory chip could be a game changer for machine learning
For many years, it's been hard to commercialize "MRAM" memory chips because of their unpredictability. But a startup, Spin Memory, is betting that the randomness operating in MRAM might make it an ideal chip for machine learning.
Fujitsu's AI to help judges score gymnastic performances at World Championships
It will used by judges for four apparatus at the event.
Chip startup Spin Memory wants to change the key ingredients of all chips
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray explains that a special mind of data memory called MRAM, for magnetic random access memory, has taken years to commercialize. Startup spin memory thinks the key to making it work is to take advantage of the inherent randomness in MRAM. Viewed from that perspective, the chip could actually accelerate AI applications, giving it special appeal. Read more: https://zd.net/2Vmar3i
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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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