Interactive Memory Service Leverages AI
StoryFile offers a somewhat unique service that seems poised to look like something out of Black Mirror. The company – a relative newcomer – helps people to record themselves telling their stories, then presents those stories in an interactive, voice-activated interface. Read more…
Cloudera Beat Analyst Expectations in Q2
Things are starting to look up for Cloudera, which beat analyst expectations with its second quarter results announced yesterday. The distributed computing platform maker also gave investors something to cheer about with an optimistic financial forecast for the rest of fiscal 2021. Read more…
Low-Code Can Lower the Barrier to Entry for AI
Organizations that want to get started quickly with machine learning may be interested in investigating emerging low-code options for AI. While low-code techniques will never completely replace hand-coded systems, they can help accelerate smaller, less experienced data science teams, as well as help with prototyping for professional data scientists. Read more…
DOE Announces ‘First Five Consortium’ to Fight Natural Disasters with AI
As wildland fires tear across California and hurricane season starts to warm up, natural disasters are top-of-mind for many Americans. Predicting and managing these disasters is an ongoing challenge, and researchers are leveraging technology from supercomputing to big data analytics to try to bridge these gaps. Read more…
Air Force Expands Predictive Maintenance
The U.S. Air Force is expanding its embrace of predictive analytics tools to keep pace with maintenance demands for its huge fleet of fighters, bombers, tankers, transports and helicopters.
There is no shortage of U.S. Read more…
Cloudian Pins Container Hopes on K8s Operator
Object storage systems like Amazon S3 are currently winning the big data storage battle, thanks to low costs and infinite capacities. But getting object stores to work with containerized applications isn’t always straightforward. Now Cloudian, which provides on-prem object storage, is helping to simplify the integration with a Kubernetes operator. Read more…
Google Joins the MLOps Crusade
Machine learning developers face an expanded set of management issues beyond merely getting the code right, including the testing and validation of data used in ML models while handling an additional set of infrastructure dependencies. Read more…
Leveraging AI to Deliver a Personalized Experience in the New Normal
In today’s world, gaming, video streaming and social sharing experiences drive consumer broadband usage in both mobile and fixed networks. These same activities are the ones which have grown the most during the global pandemic and in our “new normal,” and together sum up to 80% of Internet traffic worldwide. Read more…
How Facebook Accelerates SQL at Extreme Scale
Serving SQL queries on a petabyte of data is one thing, but delivering it at Facebook’s scale is something else entirely. Earlier this year, the social media giant implemented the Alluxio distributed file system into its massive data architecture to speed up queries, while maintaining the separation of compute and storage. Read more…
Getting Creative with COVID-19 Contact Tracing
What do a GIS, a SIEM, and a time and attendance system have in common? If you said they’re all being used to help trace potential COVID-19 infections in American schools and workplaces, then give yourself a gold star. Read more…
LinkedIn Unveils Open-Source Toolkit for Detecting AI Bias
As AI becomes increasingly integrated in our day-to-day lives, the implications of bias in AI grow more and more worrisome. Training data that appears impartial is often influenced by historical and socioeconomic factors that render it biased, sometimes to the detriment of marginalized groups, and especially in AI applications in sectors like healthcare and criminal justice. Read more…
Speech Recognition Gets an AutoML Training Tool
Pure Storage Rolls All-QLC Flash Array
Pure Storage released the second generation of its all-flash array this week, positioning it as an enterprise-grade storage platform for “capacity-oriented” workloads.
The company (NYSE: PSTG) also claimed its storage platform is the first all-QLC storage array, as in quad-level cell technology. Read more…
The New Tech Hotspot Is…Tupelo, Mississippi?
Forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tech workers are fleeing pricey tech hubs like Silicon Valley taking up residence in more affordable abodes. According to one new survey, places like Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Tupelo, Mississippi, could be the beneficiaries of this trend. Read more…
Microsoft Now Developing Its Own Hadoop
Hadoop might be dead, but that’s not stopping public cloud providers from using it. The latest to make a move is Microsoft Azure, which in July announced that it would begin developing its own distribution under its HDInsight brand. Read more…
DataRobot Report Claims Massive ROI for Its Enterprise AI Tools
Enterprise AI firm DataRobot has, in partnership with Forrester Consulting, released the results of a new study of the return on investment for DataRobot’s tools – and, perhaps unsurprisingly, DataRobot’s report has found that DataRobot’s products deliver an enormous return on investment (ROI). Read more…
Snowflake to Make it SNOW on NYSE
Rumors have been swirling for weeks that Snowflake confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yesterday, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehousing company made it official: It intends to start selling shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SNOW. Read more…
How Managers and Their Teams use Emoji Differently at Work
With the rise of digital chat platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, emoji have become a significant element of business communications. Emoji have a significant effect on communication via these digital channels: 81% of people think emoji users are friendlier and more approachable, 74% think they make positive news sound more sincere, and 65% of people feel more comfortable expressing emotion via emoji than talking on the phone. Read more…
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