The growth of big data has led many organizations to store petabytes of valuable information in a centralized repository, more out of necessity than by design. But the value of a central data lake is increasingly being questioned, as end-users demand access to key datasets for running distributed applications. That’s why companies such as Unifi ...

Many years ago, a beverage company advertised its latest low-calorie product by proclaiming that “it tastes great and is less filling.” Now Twitter has borrowed a page from that script with the release of Twitter Lite, a Progressive Web App that could be described as one that “launches faster and takes less space.” Twitter Lite ...

A GitHub framework to build desktop applications with Web technology and distribute it across three platforms automatically has become a global phenomenon, according to the project’s manager. And he’s officially lost track of the number of new applications being published. “I’ve never been in this situation before where something that I’m working on has been ...

Microsoft’s recent announcement of Azure Container Instances, a new service designed to run software containers in the cloud more easily, is yet another example of how the company is interested in attracting Node.js  developers to join the party. “We want to make it a much easier for developers to move on from their existing paradigms ...

Going back to 2012, there was plenty of discussion in technology circles about Node.js, a JavaScript runtime based on Chrome’s V8 engine. It held tremendous promise as a lightweight, efficient, non-blocking development framework that was made to order for the Web. The problem was that no one was using it. Fast forward to 2017, and ...

Raising questions about the security of a popular method of distributing applications, a researcher from Aqua Security has published documentation of a potential attack approach that allows a hacker to plant malware via Docker Inc. “container” software and activate code on targeted systems. The research, presented at the Black Hat USA 2017 cybersecurity conference in ...

It used to be that when security researchers found a software bug, they would bring it to a company’s attention and hope for a small sum of money in return. Some firms paid out and many did not. But in the last several years, companies large and small have created formal bug bounty programs as ...

Machine learning has led to breakthroughs such as speech recognition and smart digital assistants such as Alexa. Then there’s the downside. Scammers are now using machine learning tools to mine social media data and target the executive organization chart with fraudulent emails that look and sound like they came from someone inside the company. And ...

Who says vending machines don’t offer enough choice? Chowbotics Inc. has built a robot that offers salads in 1,000 different varieties around-the-clock. The Silicon Valley-based startup is hoping that the salad-making machine will ignite interest in the field of food service robotics and revolutionize consumer eating habits. “There are lots of surveys which show that Millennials ...

Investors enjoy having plenty of options, and the food tech landscape certainly offers choices at the moment with approximately 3,000 companies vying for funding and customers, according to two prominent food tech investors. The explosion of new companies is fueling innovation in the field, but there are growing pains as well. “The ecosystem has changed so ...