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Big data leads a transformation in PC gaming
This is a sponsored post commissioned by Hitachi Vantara Corp. Sponsored posts are paid content that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. For pricing and inquiries, email sponsor@siliconangle.com. There’s a quiet revolution going on in the personal computer gaming industry, and it’s being driven by big-data analytics. The $18.4 billion market has ...
Targeting cybersecurity, Larry Ellison debuts Oracle’s new ‘self-driving’ database
Oracle Corp. Sunday announced the next generation of its database, which founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said will be able to handle key tasks such as critical software patches automatically. Ellison (pictured) also said that the autonomous database will help on another product to be introduced in detail Tuesday: new cybersecurity technology that ...
Despite delays, internet co-creator Vint Cerf still dreams of an interplanetary internet
Where has NASA’s sense of adventure gone? That’s what Internet pioneer and Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf says he’s wondering these days. And you can hardly blame him. NASA support for his pet Interplanetary Internet project has been as spotty as Jupiter. The set of extraterrestrial network protocols Cerf developed with NASA and its Jet ...
Google Brain chief: AI tops humans in computer vision, and healthcare will never be the same
Just five years ago, artificial intelligence-enabled computers could barely recognize images fed to them, much less analyze them anything like people can. Suddenly, they’ve turned the tables. “In 2011 their error rate was 26 percent,” says Jeff Dean, chief of the Google Brain project, which along with other tech giants has helped lead a recent ...
In the new ‘circular economy,’ sustainability is good business – and tech is leading the way
By Thomas Singer By 2030, the global middle class will grow from 2.4 billion to 5.4 billion people. That surge not only threatens the health of the environment, but also the health of businesses, through resource shortages disrupting supply chains and spiking the cost of raw materials. Metals, minerals, water – the list goes on. Despite the ...
The new moats: Why systems of intelligence are the next defensible business model
This guest post by Jerry Chen, a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, originally appeared on Greylock’s blog, reproduced here by permission. Chen has frequently appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s mobile video studio. To build a sustainable and profitable business, you need strong defensive moats around your company. This rings especially true ...
Analytics helps Indiana community college put a dent in the dropout problem
This is a sponsored post commissioned by Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company. Sponsor Posts are paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. For pricing and inquiries, email sponsor@siliconangle.com. Fewer than two out of every three Americans who enter a four-year college program graduate within six years. Thirty percent don’t even ...
The many costs of cloud computing lock-in
Gary Bloom is chief executive of the enterprise database company MarkLogic Corp. He wrote this article for SiliconANGLE. In a situation nearly every company will face, one of the Internet’s brightest stars has highlighted the value of not getting locked into a single cloud computing provider. Snap Inc., creator of the messaging app Snapchat, recently revealed ...
The lesson of the Amazon Web Services outage: The cloud must be decentralized
Yaron Haviv is co-founder and chief technology officer of iguazio, maker of an Enterprise Data Cloud that consolidates data into a repository, available as software to run on a company’s own servers or integrated in a hardware appliance. This is a version of a blog post adapted for SiliconANGLE. Earlier this week, a significant portion ...
FCC chair Ajit Pai insists agency will be politically independent
New FCC Chair Ajit Pai on Tuesday insisted on his agency would remain independent in the face of political pressure from President Donald Trump, saying that if he bowed to pressure from his boss, he would “just become another political player.” The comments from Pai (pictured) came in response to a pointed question from CNBC ...