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Head fake: MIT work shows fake news detection isn't quite there yet
Efforts to detect fake news are not as advanced as they would appear, given that the best practices so far rely on pattern detection that can itself be exploited by malicious actors, according to new research from MIT.
High energy: Facebook's AI guru LeCun imagines AI's next frontier
The next evolution in artificial intelligence may be a matter of dispensing with all the probabilistic tricks of deep learning, mastering instead a manifold of shifting energy values, according to deep learning's pied piper, Yann LeCun.
Databricks introduces MLflow Model Registry, brings Delta Lake to Linux Foundation
The company founded by the creators of Apache Spark is working to elevate its newest innovations to open source standards.
Unifying cloud storage and data warehouses: Delta Lake project hosted by the Linux Foundation
A mix of open source foundations and commercial adoption, the strategy adopted by Databricks for Delta Lake could set Delta Lake on its way to becoming a standard for storing data on the cloud
ThoughtSpot announces v6, adds search suggestions, offers iOS app
ThoughtSpot, known for its search-over-business-intelligence platform, is announcing version 6 of its core product and a new mobile app for BI consumption users.
This power station the size of a cathedral is getting a digital twin
The power plant is 82 metres across, and a simulation technology firm could make it easier to manage and extend its life expectancy.
SAP Teched Postmortem: SAP HANA Cloud’s potential impact on S/4HANA
Among the announcements coming out of SAP Teched in Barcelona last week was the impending release of SAP HANA Cloud, where the database has been rearchitected specifically for the cloud. While SAP has not mentioned anything specific about it, we think that HANA’s cloud design could have a huge impact on how SAP delivers its enterprise SaaS services, starting with S/4HANA.
Project purple: IAG moves away from being an analogue business
The insurance giant believes the digital transformation will allow it to expand its product range beyond insurance.
The artificial intelligence factory, coming to an enterprise near you
The four essential ingredients to building an AI factory.
Brazilian government to create single citizen database
From date of birth to gait, data from millions of individuals will be shared "as widely as possible" across departments.
Clear the path to continuous intelligence with machine learning, consultancy urges
Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning, or CD4ML, promotes 'a cross-functional team produces machine learning applications in small and safe increments.'
Domo launches analytics app for Square sellers
Domo for Square lets sellers combine siloed financial data and apply a range of Domo's analytics filters to produce visualizations on key business metrics.
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.
SAP readies bevy of HANA Cloud Services
The enterprise software giant brings SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to GA.
GoodData partners with Amazon on Redshift: When data goes cloud, cloud data goes into analytics
Adding support for an AWS product is usually a good idea for 3rd party vendors. Adding a partnership on top of that is even better. GoodData is doing that, and more, on its way to offer analytics to everyone.
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.
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
Data61 using AI and gamification to diagnose mental health patients
It will help accurately detect the difference between depression and bipolar.
Carvana: How data informs buying a car online
Carvana CEO Ernie Garcia talks to ZDNet editor Larry Dignan about the role of technology in buying and selling cars online. There are a lot of data dots to connect. Read more: https://zd.net/2mRJTK5
MuleSoft strategy sets up an example for the whole industry to follow
How MuleSoft patched a critical security flaw and avoided a disaster.
Taylor looking at embedding sensors and smarts in concrete
Sydney, don't ask. You cannot retrofit sensors into apartment foundations.
Government kicks off AU$15m pilot using data on Australians living with disability
The latest initiative from Minister for Government Services and the NDIS Stuart Robert.
AI gets sophisticated about language but it still doesn’t know science
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray explains that researchers at the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a massive assemblage of machine learning techniques that use probability models of language to ace question-answering on the New York State Regents exam for 8th through 12th grade science. The effort is a technological marvel, but it still doesn’t mean that AI really understands anything about science, per se. Read more: https://zd.net/2N9RFuC
Microsoft and Telstra team up for business data sharing platform
Azure used for upcoming Data Hub product targeted at water management, agribusiness, and connected supply chain.
Farmbot delivering remote watering solutions to Aussie farmers
It uses algorithms to detect abnormal behaviour in water levels to deliver near real-time reports to farmers.
Cloud rescue: ‘Digital twin’ program helping save endangered New Zealand bird
A digital twin of every kakapo has been created to track the health of each individual bird and its environment.
How to make analytics more accessible to the general business user
Kate Wright, head of augmented business intelligence Hana an Analytics at SAP, explains to Tonya Hall the process and the importance of making analytics available for more than just data scientists.
CSIRO's Data61 opens Mixed Reality Lab in Melbourne
The lab will allow industries to create digital copies of physical objects, systems, or people.
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.
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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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