Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy and professionally photographed travels suggest the 32-year-old billionaire may harbor political aspirations – He visited Texas, shook some hands, talked to some kids, and, quite literally, got down in the dirt. Don’t read too much into it.
Category: Computer Science
Deep Learning Market Worth 1,722.9 Million USD by 2022, at a CAGR of 65.3%
According to the new market research report “Deep Learning Market by Application , Offering , and Software), End-User Industry, and Geography – Global Forecasts to 2022”, the deep learning market is expected to be worth USD 1,722.9 Million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 65.3% between 2016 and 2022. The deep learning market has a huge potential across various industries such as advertisement, finance, and automotive.
Atos announces first UK delivery of its new Bull sequana supercomputer
Paris, London, 20th January 2017 – Atos, a leader in digital transformation, announces the first installation of its Bull sequana X1000 new-generation supercomputer system, in the UK at the Hartree Centre. Founded by the UK government, the Science and Technology Facilities Council Hartree Centre is a high performance computing and data analytics research facility.
Impact of robots a growing concern at Davos
Technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and 3-D printing mean more and more types of jobs are at risk Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines. Business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos relished the productivity gains technology can bring this week.
padsniff 1.0.1
Padsniff includes a pretty heavy list of dependencies, including lxml and cryptography . You’ll need to install some of their dependencies via your package manager.
EU Considers If Future Robots Have Legal Rights
I know I saw a movie about this somewhere, but now it’s a real-life question in the European Union. In a report by the Committee on Legal Affairs for the European Parliament, the government proposes laws on the creation and ethical treatment of smart robots .
IDG Contributor Network: SADA Systems grows its cloud consulting business
Cloud. Despite all the hype about it being super easy, being self service and having a low on-ramp, the reality is service providers often still need to help organizations with the move to the cloud.
Perry ‘can’t answer’ whether Trump plans DOE cuts
Two Democratic members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee asked Perry at his confirmation hearing to confirm a report that morning in The Hill regarding cuts to physics, computing, energy efficiency, fossil energy and more at DOE. “I think all of us, having been in the business we’ve been in for the years that we have, know that there are always a lot of statements.
Tintri to Present #DevOps June 6-8 at @CloudExpo | @Tintri #VM #SDN
“We are an all-flash array storage provider but our focus has been on VM-aware storage specifically for virtualized applications,” stated Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo , held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Updating DevOps to the latest production data slows down your development cycle.
Net Platforms Ltd Ready to Create a Reorganization in IT Support Market with IT Support in London
Net Platforms Ltd, a leading provider of IT, computer and network solutions, has introduced committed growth plans as it sets its places on offering the growing outsourced IT support services. LONDON CITY, England – Jan. 19, 2017 – PRLog — Net Platforms Ltd, a leading provider of IT, computer and network solutions, has introduced committed growth plans as it sets its places on offering the growing outsourced IT support services industry with an offering made especially to fulfill the requirements of SMEs.
Improved Protection in Updated SecureBridge from Devart
Devart, a recognized vendor of professional database tools for developers and DBAs, has released a new version of SecureBridge. An update of SecureBridge components delivers such new features as: *Elliptic Curve Cryptography cipher suites is supported.
Cloud Security Market Growth Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts Report 2016-2021
The global Cloud Security Market increase inadoption of cloud computing, and growing demand for managed security services are playing a major role in shaping the future of cloud-based security services market. The global Cloud Security Market is driven by the rising demand for cloud computing by small and medium-sized businesses, the ease and flexibility in managing cloud security solutions and the proliferation of handheld devices.
Tyrant in the code
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Robots and artificial intelligence set to upend the art of making a sale
Thanks to facial recognition capabilities, Pepper can determine your gender and age bracket. And as you begin asking her questions, she can draw from a vast volume of cloud-based information to give what she thinks are relevant answers.
Algorithmic trading in less than 100 lines of Python code
If you’d like to learn more about analyzing financial data with Python, check out Python for Finance by Yves Hilpisch. Algorithmic trading refers to the computerized, automated trading of financial instruments with little or no human intervention during trading hours.
Brocade Lands NFV Deal at China Mobile
Brocade today announced that China Mobile Ltd , the world’s largest mobile communications service provider, has selected an advanced network functions virtualization solution from Brocade to support its most strategic corporate development initiative. Deployment of the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager within key China Mobile data centers will help the company deliver highly available and agile cloud services, while keeping operating costs under control.
How Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co Gained 52% in 2016
The business-oriented half of the old HP conglomerate is off to a great start. It is also busy whittling down its focus to an even sharper point.
Most of the world’s largest companies promise to retrain staff even if robots replace jobs
The report found that companies across the globe are counting on adopting AI to radically boost their revenue and streamlining their organisation’s structure. Meanwhile, in just three years’ time, 39% of those “currently or planning to use AI technology” believe that their group’s revenue will be boosted.
10 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free today
It’s time to start the week off with a bang, and we’ve got just the thing. Today’s list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free includes several hot apps that have never been featured on the site before.
MS Making a Foldable Tablet-Phone?
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Travel Megatrends 2017: Festivalization of Meetings and Events
Conference organizers are developing more multidisciplinary programming that pulls from both the business and creative industries, creating a new convergence of experiences that help brands plug into business events in more ways. Last week we released our annual travel industry trends forecast, Skift Megatrends 2017 .
From fiction to fact: the cybercrime threats of the future
As programmes like ‘Humans’ and ‘West World’ play out a fictional world of cyborgs turning on mankind, we take a look at the growing number of cyber threats, both to businesses and individuals, and how fiction is quickly becoming fact. The Internet of Things and advances in artificial intelligence have created a swathe of new opportunities for criminals where complacency is, at best, commercial suicide and, at its very worst, potentially world ending.
Schools recruit girls in underrepresented STEM classes
Thomas Jefferson High School senior Toby Lechtenberger modifies code to create a graphic user interface in science teacher Denise Hoag’s classroom on Thursday, Jan. 6., 2017 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hoag are trying to get more girls interested in computer science, a traditionally male-dominated field.
Schools recruit girls in underrepresented STEM classes
Thomas Jefferson High School senior Toby Lechtenberger modifies code to create a graphic user interface in science teacher Denise Hoag’s classroom on Thursday, Jan. 6., 2017 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hoag are trying to get more girls interested in computer science, a traditionally male-dominated field.
Subgoal-labeled Instructional Material Improves Performance and…
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Bethany unveils new majors
Bethany College has announced three new majors: Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity – Information Assurance and International Business.
Top security expert: ‘There is no WhatsApp backdoor’
WhatsApp, a massive messaging platform owned by Facebook, is well known as one of the more secure messengers on the market. every message sent using the service will be protected in a way that even WhatsApp would not be able to read it if it wanted to, called end-to-end encryption.
How IBM Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Cybersecurity
Cybercrime is an epidemic. Consider these statistics from Checkmarx: Cybercrime is expected to cost businesses over $2 trillion annually by 2019, four times as much as 2015.
WhatsApp and friends take umbrage at report its crypto is backdoored
The Guardian roiled security professionals everywhere on Friday when it published an article claiming a backdoor in Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service allows attackers to intercept and read encrypted messages. It’s not a backdoor-at least as that term is defined by most security experts.
D-Wave open sources quantum app development software
Agencies looking to experiment with quantum computing now have access to open source quantum software tools from D-Wave Systems. Although mainstream quantum computing is still years off, agencies are starting to experiment with D-Wave machines for optimization problems.
Don’t Kill Humans: European Parliament Calls for Laws Governing Artificial Intelligence
A draft report outlining a possible regulatory framework was approved by the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee on Thursday. It covers a broad range of AI-related issues, from liability in accidents involving driverless cars to the possibility of creating a new legal status of “electronic persons” for the most sophisticated autonomous robots.
How serverless computing could help enterprises cut cloud complexity
As some enterprises find the reality of cloud fails to live up to the hype, Clive Longbottom explains why serverless computing could help firms attain the operational benefits they’re looking for Setting up a cloud computing platform can be a little more complex than many organisations expect, as there are so many things to take into consideration. This essential guide brings together 6 articles wisely selected to help you understand what the real benefits of converged infrastructure are.
Kitces: How to survive the robo planner threat
The compounding growth of computing power suggests it’s only a matter of time before computers have the same brainpower as a human being. And don’t look now, but computers may surpass humans’ cognitive powers sooner than we think.
WISeKey India Joint Venture First Seed Financing Round Oversubscribed
As per the terms of the Joint Venture, WISeKey India will localize WISeKey’s Cybersecurity Platform and provide Indian customers – both individuals and organizations – trusted identities for the Internet of Things objects and mobiles, enabling them to complete secure online transactions with confidence, trust the identities of others, and the identities of the IoT infrastructure. These transactions will run via localized Root of Trust , serve the Indian Ecosystem, and will benefit sectors such as telecom, manufacturing, retail, and e-commerce.
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Amazon commits to hiring 100,000 U.S. workers
While many of the jobs will be in warehouses, Amazon said the company will be looking for engineers and software developers in such areas as cloud computing and machine learning. “Innovation is one of our guiding principles at Amazon, and it’s created hundreds of thousands of American jobs,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in a statement .
How Apple’s culture of secrecy wears down its top developers…
Chris Lattner, Apple’s head of developer tools and the creator of its uber-popular programming language, Swift, this week announced plans to join Tesla. People leave their jobs for all kinds of reasons, especially when they are offered exciting new jobs at important, on-the-rise companies.
Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine-Learning and the Microbiome
A new proof-of-concept study by researchers from the University of California San Diego succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup. Since this can be done by genetically sequencing fecal samples, the research suggests there is great promise for new diagnostic tools that are, unlike blood draws, non-invasive.
Inspur Joins Open Compute Project As Platinum Member
OCP was initiated by Facebook in 2011 with the mission to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing — reducing the environmental impact of data centers. Since then, OCP has been consistently innovating around open source contributions for networking, servers, storage and Open Rack.
AWS moves into IT training and job placement with re:Start, a UK cloud skills program
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