Category: Startups

The Weekly Research Analysts’ Ratings Updates for NVIDIA

Taking a look into the performance of NVDA stock, investor will come to know that the weekly performance for this stock is valued at 7.01%, resulting in a performance for the month at -2.57%. Analysts’ recommendations are the fountainhead of equity research reports and should be used in tangent with proprietary research and investment methodologies in order to make investment decisions.

Why AMD, Snap, and NVIDIA Jumped Today

After a strong showing late last week as the Federal Reserve opted to increase interest rates, the stock market was mostly flat on Monday, with major indexes fluctuating between positive and negative territory. But amid a flurry of encouraging analyst notes, there were a few individual companies that managed to buck the trend, and shares of Advanced Micro Devices were among those stocks that delivered outsized gains today.

Google search may soon be unblocked in Mainland China

Seven years after Google pulled its search engine out of mainland China over a disagreement on censorship directives, the information giant is negotiating with Beijing to make its comeback to the world’s biggest internet market. Google is currently not available in the country, which boasts 721 million web users, and locals can only access to the service by using VPNs.

Intel Security releases MacBook scanner for CIA Vault 7 rootkits

We’re just a few days removed from the WikiLeaks publication, Vault 7, that outlined many of the supposed hacking tools at the disposal of the CIA. It has left tech firms scrambling for fixes and has raised questions over what products and services are most at risk, especially as the dust and sensationalism settles around just what kind of powers the CIA wielded with these so-called cyber weapons.

WikiLeaks ready to offer Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools to tech companies

In other words, spying; Wikileaks founder Julia Assange has not released all the details about the CIA’s hacking software, but said he would release them to major tech companies, which tech expert Broc Wurzbacher says is a good thing. The hacking tools have targeted iPhones, Android systems such as the personal phone reportedly used by President Donald Trump , popular Microsoft software, and Samsung smart TVs, the documents indicated.

Remember the netbook? Crowdfunding is bringing it back

The mini-laptop’s market niche got swamped by the iPad and the phablet, but netbook fans are funding a comeback Since Apple rolled out the first iPad in 2010, tablet computers have become so ubiquitous and cheap that netbooks, the mobile device category they effectively killed off, have largely been forgotten. The mini-laptops once were all the rage among students, writers and anyone else looking for a portable computer that could do a lot for a low price.

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Co. ‘s stock had its “outperform” rating restated by investment analysts at Cowen and Company in a research report issued to clients and investors on Saturday.

Web creator Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on fake news

World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about fake news, political advertising and the misuse of personal data. In an open letter to mark the web’s 28th anniversary , he outlined issues he says need to be solved for it to “fulfil its true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity.”

Nude photo scandal shows Tailhook mentality lives in military

Active-duty U.S. Marine Marisa Woytek listens during a press conference in Los Angeles about personal photographs of women Marines being posted on a private Facebook account without their consent. Active-duty U.S. Marine Marisa Woytek listens during a press conference in Los Angeles about personal photographs of women Marines being posted on a private Facebook account without their consent.

Alibaba Is a Great Long-Term Pick

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ‘s downturn started after reaching its all-time highs in late 2014. The e-commerce company, however, managed to regain its lost upward momentum in 2016 as the stock was up nearly 15%.

Google Expands Cloud Data Center Plans, Asserts Hardware, Connectivity Leadership

Google has added three locations to the list of cloud data center construction projects it is doing to expand geographic reach of the physical infrastructure that supports its enterprise cloud services, investing billions to catch up with its biggest rivals in the space – Amazon, and Microsoft. Urs HA lzle, the company’s senior VP for technical infrastructure, announced the plans from stage Thursday at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco.

Wikileaks releases more than 8700 Central Intelligence Agency cyber-espionage documents

“As we’ve reviewed the documents, we’re confident that security updates and protections in both Chrome and Android already shield users from many of these alleged vulnerabilities”, Heather Adkins, Director of Information Security and Privacy, told Mashable in a statement . WikiLeaks’ publication of the documents reignited a debate about whether USA intelligence agencies should hold on to serious cyber security vulnerabilities rather than share them with the public.

Apple, Samsung, Microsoft express concern about Central Intelligence…

“It lools like not only is [the Central Intelligence Agency arsenal] being spread around contractors and former American computer hackers for hire, but now maybe around the black market or being used by these American hackers who sometimes, you know cross both sides of the fence-they’re called grey hats-for attacking others”, Assange said . To Snowden, the biggest story about ” Vault 7 ” is that US intelligence services have purchased software vulnerabilities so it could use them to spy on people, when, in the interests of public safety, it should have turned over the information to the makers of the software.

Nvidia, Microsoft take on cloud-based AI with HGX-1

The HGX-1 GPU accelerator chassis is made up of eight Tesla P100 GPUs, all of which utilise the new Pascal architecture, according to Nvidia. To accelerate the deployments of AI-oriented technologies, Nvidia has teamed up with Microsoft and Ingrasys to develop a “hyperscale” GPU accelerator chassis.

Why Yahoo’s iconic color is purple

Why Yahoo’s iconic color is purple Yahoo just posted an interesting video that would fit nicely in a Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2m7DtkF SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo just posted an interesting video that would fit nicely in a time capsule: Company CEO Marissa Mayer interviewing co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo in a fireside chat, reminiscing on the Internet icon’s first 22 years. After a rocky start – Yang jokingly recalled that Filo, a teaching assistant in his computer architecture class at Stanford University, gave Yang his first-ever “B” for a midterm – they teamed up while in school to create a company whose products and services reach billions of people.

AMD details Zen-based Naples server processors

After the successful launch of its new Ryzen processors last week, AMD has announced the first details of its upcoming Naples CPUs intended for servers and data centers. These processors were designed around the same Zen architecture as Ryzen though they will be a great deal more powerful.

Descartes Labs imagery search engine

We have looked at a number of image recognition based search engines before, such as Google faces tracker , which we saw in 2013, which was designed for finding faces in Google Earth imagery, or Terrapattern a more recent and more general search engine. We have also had a look at DigitalGlobe’s use of artificial intelligence to analyse imagery.

Videos

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Mellanox to Showcase Cloud Infrastructure Efficiency With…

Technologies, Ltd. , a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems , today announced that it will work with Microsoft to showcase the Open Networking solution with its flagship Open Compute Project compatible Spectrum Ethernet Switches running production-ready networking operating system based on Microsoft’s Software for Open Networking in the Cloud at 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100Gb/s speed. This combined solution demonstrates continued momentum behind the Open Ethernet initiative, as highlighted by interoperability, high availability, operational simplicity, and end-to-end efficient data movement based on Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet .

The CIA Is Allegedly Stockpiling Methods To Hack Your Phone

Newly leaked documents allege that the U.S. government can hack into smartphones and spy on their owners – potentially putting millions of iPhone and Android users at risk. , dated between 2013 and 2016 – describing malware and other tools the agency has stockpiled and could potentially use to hack into consumer electronics.

Mouser Electronics Continues Sponsorship of Create the Future Design Contest

Mouser Electronics , Inc., the New Product Introduction leader that empowers innovation, is again a major sponsor of the Create the Future Design Contest , a challenge to engineers and students worldwide to create the next great thing. are a major sponsor of the Create the Future Design Contest, a challenge to engineers and students to create the next great thing.