DARPA Floats an ‘Ocean of Things’

The Pentagon’s top research agency is pushing the notion of a data lake to new depths with an oceanic network of floating sensors that would provide the raw data for analytics, including everything from sea state and w Read more…

Investors Accelerating Driverless Car Development

Optimus Ride, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI spinoff developing fully autonomous vehicles, continues to attract venture funding as it applies machine learning, computer vision and mapping techniques to the pr Read more…

Intel Acquires Car Sensor Specialist Mobileye

Intel Corp. continued its foray into the autonomous vehicle sector this week with the acquisition of computer vision and machine-learning specialist Mobileye for about $15 billion in cash. Betting that autonomous vehi Read more…

Ex-Security Chief Dishes on Israel’s Big Data Ops

The former head of the Israel Security Agency's IT unit says big data has been widely used by the Israeli military to track down and kill enemies of the Israeli state, including several senior Hamas leaders killed during Read more…