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New regulation revs up e-bike adoption in the US
While engineers and developers work out the safety kinks in self-driving cars, software-enabled electric bikes can be taken for a ride today. While they aren’t self pedaling, the sensors and electric motors can help cyclists shorten commutes and conquer steep hills and rough terrain. They’re already big in Europe and getting bigger in the U.S. ...
Sumo Logic customers backseat-drove the platform to security
It’s likely that techies have seen the words Sumo Logic and security in the same sentence. However, the machine-data analytics company Sumo Logic Inc. did not set out to sell security software. Its platform’s versatility just naturally results in a tug-of-war between app-monitoring and other use cases. The company has decided not to dictate users, and instead watch ...
How a versatile machine-data platform makes security everyone’s job
De-silo is one of the hottest verbs sounding throughout Silicon Valley lately. Vendors are whipping up tools that break data out of silos for analytics and applications. Businesses using these tools to naturally segue into bringing people out of silos for greater collaboration and intelligence sharing. Applications and platforms with cross-department utility pull disparate teams together ...
Open-source project weaves through on-prem, cloud, containers
Computing infrastructure today is splitting up and floating adrift like ice floes on the Arctic Ocean. Companies see the benefits of on-premises data centers, cloud and containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), but struggle to manage all three. Is there a single thread that can string them all together? Hortonworks Inc. has been ...
Inspector Gadget: Are all these AI tools for real?
Can we take stock of the state of artificial intelligence for a moment? Vendors are slapping the label on all kinds of products with pretty measly predictive potential. This isn’t just a ripoff; it could have disastrous business and societal impacts if users put too much faith in them. Hypothetically, perfect AI could be trusted ...
To stay cutting-edge sharp, AT&T puts feelers in wilds of techland
Keeping up with the latest technological innovation can be challenging even for nimble startups. For a huge legacy company, folding bleeding-edge tech into the core of the business, it must put feelers out in the wilds of techland. This is how AT&T Inc. is making strides in areas like the internet of things edge and 5G ...
Think you’re mobile? You ain’t seen nothing till 5G drops
What’s with the hype around 5G networking? We’ve got 4G already. Is a single digit going to improve on it that massively? It is — in fact, it is more than a step up for networking; it’s a leap for society in general and will show us the true meaning of mobile, according to Mazin Gilbert ...
First responders get their own network, no throttling with FirstNet
Congested networks are more than an inconvenience for ordinary mobile-phone users. They can cost lives in natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other situations that call for rapid coordination among emergency first respondents. A public-private initiative between AT&T Inc. and America’s public safety agencies aims to nix networking from the list of things to worry about ...
Open source is free like a puppy, but ROI is worth it, says Microsoft
Techies like to joke that open source is free like a puppy. Indeed, open-source communities — with their large, varied collections of code and rapid cadence of change — can extract a ton of hours and hassles from those using the technologies in production. Still, the trending opinion is that it’s all worth it for ...
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With 5G rollouts, ‘things are just going to work better’
Real, live 5G network services are coming. AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. just announced they’ll be rolling out advanced telecommunications plans for customers before New Year’s. But what’s the bigger picture for trending technologies such as artificial intelligence and self-driving cars? Obviously, it means faster mobile data networking. But 5G’s low latency will ratchet up ...
