Tucked in the Los Altos hills near the Stanford University campus, in a low-slung bunker of offices across from a coffee shop, is a lab overflowing with blinking machines putting circuits through their paces to test for speed, the silicon equivalent of a tool and die shop. Most chips you can balance on the tip of your finger, measuring just a centimeter on a side. Something … [Read more...] about Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip
Beware: In IIoT, Overreliance On Edge Can Lead To ‘Premature Optimization’
Read why Satish Gannu says that overreliance on technology could lead to premature optimization on Forbes : One piece of (not always popular) advice I give industrial internet of things customers is to resist being swept up in the hype-wave of edge computing. Research company IDC has forecast that 40% of internet of things (IoT)-created data will be stored, processed, analyzed … [Read more...] about Beware: In IIoT, Overreliance On Edge Can Lead To ‘Premature Optimization’
What you need to know about Cloudera vs. AWS for big data
When it merged with fellow big data management vendor Hortonworks in January 2019, Cloudera Inc. gained a better chance to compete with cloud providers' Hadoop offerings -- setting up an AWS faceoff. The upcoming Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will be an open source, cloud-hosted big data offering meant to challenge Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) -- AWS' Hadoop service -- and … [Read more...] about What you need to know about Cloudera vs. AWS for big data
Ikea goes all in on smart home tech
Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue. To do this, Ikea announced that it will invest heavily in a new “Ikea Home smart” business unit with end-to-end responsibility for its burgeoning portfolio of smart devices. With access to 780 million shoppers who visit Ikea stores each … [Read more...] about Ikea goes all in on smart home tech
Blockchain: a friend to digital continuity and lightweight workflow tool
Read Nick Ismail explain how blockchain technology can be an aid to digital continuity on Information Age : Blockchain is a friend to digital continuity. And, here’s why. There is a very natural connection between the way that blockchain can make data traceable on the abstract engineering layer across the physical supply chain. In the aerospace and automotive industries, this … [Read more...] about Blockchain: a friend to digital continuity and lightweight workflow tool