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Brazil trials facial recognition with retired public servants
The technology is being tested to support the process of confirmation the beneficiary is still alive.
Remote work readiness gives Singapore firms cybersecurity anxiety
Majority of Singapore businesses are prepared to facilitate remote work arrangements, but being so has led 58% to believe they are more susceptible to cyber attacks.
Keeping data flowing could soon cost billions, business warned
According to a new report, companies might have to pay a heavy price to be able to process the personal data of EU citizens.
IBM takes the next step with Cloud Pak for Data
IBM is in the midst of rolling out Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service on the IBM Cloud. It finally makes this end-to-end environment into the self-service offering that it was designed to be.
Rebooting AI: Deep learning, meet knowledge graphs
Gary Marcus, a prominent figure in AI, is on a mission to instill a breath of fresh air to a discipline he sees as in danger of stagnating. Knowledge graphs, the 20-year old hype, may have something to offer there.
Oracle supercomputer AI glitch impacts elections in Brazil
The problems caused delays in the totalization of votes in the first round of municipal elections.
Snowflake introduces Snowpark, a new developer environment for data programming
The cloud data management and warehouse provider announced a bevy of product updates Tuesday that aim to improve data discovery across its platform.
Salesforce's Customer 360 Truth generally available
Customer 360 Truth represents Salesforce's effort to be the center of customer data and relationships.
Singapore to pilot common data platform in bid to plug supply chain gaps
With COVID-19 highlighting the need for robust supply chains, Singapore believes the use of a common data platform is essential for resolving critical pain points and linking key stakeholders including importers, shipping companies, and financial institutions.
Ataccama announces new AI-driven release of data governance/management platform
Ataccama ONE Gen2, featuring new "Core AI" module, seeks to automate large swaths of organizations' increasingly complex data governance and data management burdens. Other main pillars of Gen2's self-driving capability include metadata-centricity and policy management with automated enforcement.
Google Cloud launches Data Migration Service to land database workloads
The Database Migration Service is a serverless tool to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL with a few clicks.
Australian Red Cross putting data at the centre of its cloud strategy
The not-for-profit is looking to create a 'master data hub'.
Amazon AWS promises to let analysts do drag-and-drop data cleansing with DataBrew
The new program, an extension to the existing Glue software, lets non-coders such as data scientists and data analysts participate in the data preparation step using templates and drag-and-drop activities.
InfluxData adds yet another 2.0 platform and opens a new front to cloud storage
InfluxData is updating the core open source project and seeking to open up to cloud storage and multiple query paths on a strategy that balances multiple targets.
Observability, Stage 3: Distributed tracing as a service by logz.io
There is a progression in observability, says logz.io, while moving to offer distributed tracing as a service with Jaeger
Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3NXC
The new Aegis Secure Key 3NXC builds on Apricorn's Secure Key 3z and Aegis Secure Key 3NX, taking the same proven form-factor and physical keypad, and adding something that users have been asking for -- USB-C support.
ioSafe Duo: Fireproof and water resistant data storage (in pictures)
The ioSafe Duo brings peace of mind to onsite storage.
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.
Hybrid transactional analytical processing
Traditionally, operational databases and platforms for data analysis have been two different worlds. This has come to be seen as natural, as after all the requirements for use cases that need immediate results and transactional integrity are very different from those that need complex analysis and long-running processing.
Insight Platforms as a Service
Remember how we noted data is going the way of the cloud? While there are no signs of this slowing down, there's another interesting trend unraveling, the so-called Insight Platforms as a Service (IPaaS). The thinking behind this is simple: if your data is in the cloud anyway, why not use a platform that's also in the cloud to run analytics on them, and automate as much of the process as possible?
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?
The machine learning feedback loop
The pace of change is catalyzed and accelerated at large by data itself, in a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts: data-driven product -> more data -> better insights -> more profit -> more investment -> better product -> more data. So while some are still struggling to deal with basic issues related to data collection and storage, governance, security, organizational culture, and skillset, others are more concerned with the higher end of the big data hierarchy of needs.
Moving up the analytics stack
As descriptive and diagnostic analytics are getting commoditized, we are moving up the stack towards predictive and prescriptive analytics. Predictive analytics is about being able to forecast what's coming next based on what's happened so far, while prescriptive analytics is about taking the right course of action to make a desirable outcome happen.
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.
A graph is a graph is graph? RDF vs LPG
Not all graphs are created similar. Here are the main differences between RDF and LPG, as presented by Jesus Barrasa, Director Telecoms Practice, Neo4j: http://bit.ly/howSemanticIsYourGraph
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Super Bowl 50: Big tech bringing top talent to keep fans entertained, connected
Estimates peg more than one million people will visit Super Bowl City alone in the two weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday. No word yet on how many Instagrams of burritos and palm trees that could produce.
Presenting the 20 dumbest Ashley Madison passwords, in no particular order
Ashley Madison users have many priorities. Apparently, an airtight password is not one of them.
How to dominate at any tech job using spelling bee tips
Letter rip: Lessons any high-tech office warrior can learn from the teenage word masters of the National Spelling Bee
AT&T hauling cows, cheese wheels and a giant eyeball to Outside Lands
The annual Outside Lands music and food extravaganza marks the first occasion where AT&T is deploying all three of the biggest wireless tools in its arsenal at a single festival.
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.
Business pressures of the pandemic hit IT departments hard
As demand for new services is rising, budgets are falling. Business pressures of the COVID-19 crisis are falling at the feet of CIOs and IT.
Construction tech startup gets boost with COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic continues to spur rapid technology adoption and investment in construction.
Companies generate large troves of data but most of it goes to waste, survey
A new survey from Seagate and IDC reveals what challenges enterprises will need to address before they can better leverage the data they're collecting
How bad data management botched the US COVID-19 financial assistance plan
According to the GAO, 1.1 million payments went to dead people to reach that $1.4 billion tally, but the crux of the issue is data management across the US government.
Singapore looks to ease privacy fears with 'no internet' wearable device
Slated to be ready for rollout later this month, wearable devices the country is developing for COVID-19 contact tracing will not have GPS, internet, or cellular connectivity, so data can only be extracted when the device is physically handed over to the Health Ministry.
Commonwealth to move public prosecution evidence management into the cloud
The SaaS platform will be used for complex criminal prosecutions.
APAC consumers have concerns about online privacy, but let it go for freebies
More than half of consumers in Asia-Pacific are concerned about protecting their online and physical lives, but 20% are willing to offer their personal data for free products or services, while 24% share their social media details for quizzes.
Data security startup Dathena snags $12M in Series A
Singapore-based data security startup Dathena rakes in $12 million in its Series A round, which will be tapped to boost its R&D work and expansion plans in the US market, where it has a sales partnership with Microsoft.
Singapore consumers trust their emotions more than data, technology
Over half of consumers in the country make decisions based on personal experience and intuition, with 67% expressing concerns their data may be disclosed publicly.
How to manage the increase in cloud demand? This is Microsoft's plan
Microsoft officials say they've been taking some behind-the-scenes steps to try to head off current and future cloud capacity issues.
Slack expands data residency program to Australia
It comes after the program was introduced in Germany, France, and Japan.
How data is making the EMS to emergency room hand-off easier
ESO Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brent Myers outlines how structured data from EMS calls are informing COVID-19 responses and protective gear needs. 5G may also bring doctors into the ambulance via video calls in the future. Read more: https://zd.net/2VaHeJ3
Microsoft reports a 775% increase in demand for cloud services
Microsoft is sharing more guidance around capacity limits it is putting in place for its cloud resources caused by higher-than-usual demand due to COVID-19.
California law enforcement shares citizens' vehicle data without controls, audit finds
An audit from the State of California reveals that license plate tracking by law enforcement seems a touch wayward.
PDF-eXPLODE
For standard invoices and reports requiring efficient delivery, PDF-eXPLODE could well be a lifesaver. It can be a bit touchy on occasion, but once your document templates are set up properly it should be plain sailing.
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.
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