Source: devops.com Today’s customers overwhelmingly favor the simplicity of subscription models, in which they pay a flat monthly fee for access to a product in the form of a service. For example, consumers no longer buy or rent DVDs; they subscribe to Netflix. And more prefer to use the services of Uber or Lyft over Read More
Month: July 2019
Source: indiatoday.in Two consecutive budgets read by two Finance Ministers (Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal) had provisions for a National Artificial Intelligence Portal. But, almost two years have passed since AI (artificial intelligence) was given prominence. It looks like the project it stuck in red tape. Both the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Read More
Source: clearancejobs.com The next time you’re unhappy with your annual pay raise, you might not be able to blame your boss – you might need to blame a machine. In the ongoing quest to replace human resources functions with artificial intelligence, some companies are championing AI as the better (and less biased) tool to determine who Read More
Source: searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com The latest AtScale platform update, released Wednesday, aims to simplify data searches and speed up the process of data analysis. With the rollout of its 2019.2 platform, AtScale is attempting to make accessing and analyzing big data simpler and faster across both different databases and business intelligence platforms. AtScale is a data virtualization warehouse vendor Read More
Source: forbes.com The impact of automation in the workforce extends far beyond any individual employee, organization or even industry. As artificial intelligence advances and companies adopt this technology, we’re beginning to see an economic shift. In 2017, JPMorgan estimated that automation has the potential to increase global gross domestic product by more than $1.1 trillion over the Read More
Source: engadget.com Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created an artificial intelligence system that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in an average of 1.2 seconds in about 20 moves. That’s two seconds faster than the current human world record of 3.47 seconds, while people who can finish the puzzle quickly usually do so in about 50. However, UC Irvine’s Read More
Source: devclass.com Databricks, the company behind open source project Apache Spark, has given its Runtime a good old polishing, buffing the version number up to 5.5. The new Databricks Runtime is, amongst other things, able to use AWS Glue instead of Hive, and R notebooks have been added to the Python and Scala spanning list of Read More
Source: devclass.com IBM has launched a repository of datasets for training which data scientists can pick and mix to train their deep learning and machine learning models. The IBM Data Asset eXchange (DAX) is designed to complement the Model Asset eXchange it launched earlier this year, which offers researchers and developers models to deploy or train with Read More
Source: siliconangle.com Uber Technology Inc. has open-sourced a conversational artificial intelligence engine called the Plato Research Dialog System that’s set to compete with similar offerings such as Google LLC’s Dialogflow, Microsoft Corp.’s Bot Framework, and Amazon.com Inc.’s Lex. In a blog post today, Uber’s AI research team explained that Plato is designed for building, training and deploying prototype and demonstration systems. It Read More
Source: pesmedia.com With the industry in the midst of a skills shortage, businesses are struggling to fill the gap. Here Ramya Sriram, digital content manager of online platform for freelance scientists Kolabtree, discusses the rise of the citizen data scientist. The incessancy of big data shows no sign of slowing down – so much so that if Read More
Source: martechadvisor.com Adobe today announced that is partnering with Avanade, Microsoft and Accenture’s joint venture, to help customers rapidly develop, implement and derive value from Adobe and Microsoft’s digital business solutions. Marketers will benefit from their combined capabilities to excel in CXM. Avanade will build an Adobe practice, connecting Adobe Experience Cloud with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Read More
Source:sciencedaily.com More than half of the world’s active volcanoes are not monitored instrumentally. Hence, even eruptions that could potentially have rung an alarm can occur without people at risk having a clue of the upcoming disaster. As a first and early step towards a volcano early warning system, a research project headed by Sébastien Valade Read More
Source:digit.in Earlier this year, Microsoft had invited us to its Bengaluru campus for a two-day briefing on how it’s incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in many of its business solutions, including Azure, Power BI, Teams, and Office 365. In addition to letting a few of its business partners explain how these AI-enabled services help them, the Read More
Source:indiatoday.in India is the largest producer and the second largest exporter of cotton in the world. Yet, for the farmers raising cotton crop the year 2017 was horrendous. Reason? Nearly 50 per cent of their yield was destroyed following an attack by the pink bollworm. This happened despite cotton farmers using nearly 55 per cent Read More
Source:techxplore.com Since its invention by a Hungarian architect in 1974, the Rubik’s Cube has furrowed the brows of many who have tried to solve it, but the 3-D logic puzzle is no match for an artificial intelligence system created by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. DeepCubeA, a deep reinforcement learning algorithm programmed by Read More
Source:amarketresearchgazette.com cope of the Report: The global Python Web Frameworks Software market is valued at xx million USD in 2018 and is expected to reach xx million USD by the end of 2024, growing at a CAGR of xx% between 2019 and 2024. The Asia-Pacific will occupy for more market share in following years, especially Read More
Source:prnewswire.com SINGAPORE, July 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today at RSA Asia Pacific & Japan 2019, API security leader and creator of the industry’s first API Firewall – 42Crunch – announced the latest release of its API security platform with full support for Kubernetes environments. This new solution allows organizations to easily automate API security across Kubernetes environments Read More
Source:cnbc.com Joe Lonsdale said on CNBC on Monday that his fellow Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was “courageous” for speaking out against Alphabet’s Google. “Google is not a patriotic company,” said Lonsdale, also a founding partner of technology investment firm 8VC. Lonsdale was responding to the criticism levied since Thiel on Sunday said the FBI and Read More
Source:mit.edu The MIT Press and the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) have announced the launch of the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). The open-access journal, published by MIT Press and hosted online via the multimedia platform PubPub, an initiative of the MIT Knowledge Futures group, will feature leading global thinkers in the burgeoning field of Read More
Source: prnewswire.com LONDON and AUSTIN, Texas, July 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), a leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), today announced plans to deliver leading-edge intelligent automation solutions and cognitive services on Microsoft Azure. The solutions will enable an on-demand Digital Workforce and contribute to Blue Prism’s goal of delivering its connected-RPA platform on Read More
Source: darkreading.com Cloud-native architectures help businesses reduce application development time and increase agility, at a lower cost. Although flexibility and portability are key drivers for adoption, a cloud-native structure brings with it a new challenge: managing security and performance at scale. Challenges in the CloudThe nature of containers and microservices makes it harder to protect Read More
Source: news.iastate.edu AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University graduate students beat nearly 150 teams from 114 universities in 28 countries, bringing home the top prize from the 20th annual Data Mining Cup. The winners were announced July 3 in Berlin. Prudsys AG, a leading European data mining company, sponsors the intelligent-data analysis Read More
Next generation molecular medicine: unlocking big data for precision oncology and infectious disease
Source: drugtargetreview.com Advances in next generation sequencing mean we are now enjoying the era of the sub-1000-dollar genome, and the world’s genomic databases are expanding exponentially with primary sequence data from more and more individuals daily. These terabytes of genomic data, alongside the growing wealth of digital health records and clinical trials, bring invaluable insights Read More
Source: digitalinformationworld.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a big part of our lives and is capable of doing the various task, generating convincing text is one of them. Though there are many concerns regarding it but tricking Google is prominent than any other concern. Numerous blogs, website and marketing spam content can be generated through Read More
Source: forbes.com In its rush to solve all the world’s problems through deep learning, Silicon Valley is increasingly embracing the idea of AI as a universal solver that can be rapidly adapted to any problem in any domain simply by taking a stock algorithm and feeding it relevant training data. The problem with this assumption Read More
Source: timesnownews.com New York: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have developed an algorithm to detect cloud formations that lead to storms, hurricanes, and cyclones. The study, published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, shows a model that can help forecasters recognise potential severe storms more quickly and accurately. The researchers created a Read More