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March 12, 2019
Learn Things Your Competitors Don’t Want You To Know at OODAloop
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How One Cloud Storage Platform Protects Itself and Its Nearly 50 Million Users
In the age of cybercrime, cloud storage providers are facing more pressure than ever to preempt data breaches – or risk becoming the next big headline. Since 2013, over 14.6 billion records have been stolen (that’s almost 7 million per day, and 81 per second) – which goes to show, it’s no longer “if” an […]
Don’t look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions
Could a program detect potential terrorists by reading their facial expressions and behavior? This was the hypothesis put to the test by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2003, as it began testing a new surveillance program called the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques program, or Spot for short. While developing the program, they […]
Google previews TensorFlow 2.0 alpha with focus on simplicity and ML beginners
At the 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit today, Google announced a number of updates for its open-source machine learning library aimed at research and production. The TensorFlow 2.0 alpha provides a preview of upcoming changes aimed at making ML easier for beginners. TensorFlow celebrated its third birthday last November with a total of 41 million downloads and […]
How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played
To better understand how AI might become more intertwined with video games in the future, it’s important to know the two fields’ shared history. Since the earliest days of the medium, game developers have been programming software both to pretend like it’s a human and to help create virtual worlds without a human designer needing […]
Why A.I. Without Humans Will Not Solve Our Problems
Read why Katherine Maher says that artificial intelligence without human touch is bound to be a failure on the New York Times : The year 1989 is often remembered for events that challenged the Cold War world order, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is less well remembered […]
6 Reasons Why We Haven’t Seen Full AI Adoption
Read Daniel Newman take a look at the reasons behind lack of artificial intelligence adoption by tech companies on Forbes : On one hand, we know AI is the future of business. After all, manpower simply isn’t fast enough to keep up with the pace of consumer demand. That said, there’s a big difference between […]
March 11, 2019
Why You Should Adopt the Internet of Things
Read why Charles Dearing says that everybody should adopt Internet of Things connected devices with open arms on IoT Evolution World : You approach your front door, you tap the screen of your smartphone and hear the door unlock. When you walk into your house, your home is illuminated by your favorite shade of blue. Your […]
Consistent infrastructure: The secret superpower of the hybrid cloud
There is a good reason that experts cite the hybrid cloud as the preferred strategy for enterprise cloud adoption: Most organizations can benefit from the security and control of a dedicated private cloud combined with the scalability and reliability of the public cloud. But one common pitfall that many organizations fail to consider when adopting […]
Blockchain vs. a database: What’s the difference?
Blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been touted as the answer for just about every transactional issue facing the world today – from payment processing and supply chain tracking to digital identities and copyright protection. Databases, however, have been serving those same use cases for decades. They record how much money is in a bank account, […]
