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U.K. Chief scientist Sir Mark Walport advocates Bitcoin blockchain adoption
The U.K. government’s chief scientist is urging ministers there to consider adopting Bitcoin’s blockchain technology for use in the private and public sectors, saying it could be used as a more reliable way to deliver services than the current, centralized systems they have in place. The Bitcoin blockchain is the best example of how a ...
China could be about to launch its own digital currency
China is reportedly considering launching its own virtual currency, having clamped down on Bitcoin use in the country. According to a report in The Register, China’s central bank is looking at virtual currencies as a means of exerting more control over the country’s money supply. In addition, it hopes a virtual currency would help cut ...
GPS-equipped vultures lead Peru’s war on trash
Authorities in the Peruvian capital city Lima have a new weapon in their war against illegal waste dumpers. They’ve taken to equipping vultures with GPS tracking devices and, soon, GoPro cameras, in an effort to help officials crack down on the rise in illegal waste dumps in and around the city. So far, ten highly-trained ...
Google pitches Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation
Google is making its first major open-source move of the year by offering up its Dataflow technology to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as an incubator project. Google is hoping to spur more collaborative efforts and governance around its technology, which is used for writing processing for large-scale data processing jobs. The end goal is ...
Nvidia to power AliCloud’s new Deep Learning and Big Data services
China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited is stepping up its efforts to take on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the cloud with a new multi-billion dollar partnership with Nvidia Corp. that will see the chipmaker’s silicon power its new Big Data and deep learning systems. The plan, reported by the South China Morning Post, ...
Skills shortage stalls OpenStack adoption
OpenStack’s potential in the enterprise is being held back by an acute skills shortage, causing numerous organizations to fail in their efforts at deploying the open-source cloud software stack, according to a new survey. Linux vendor SUSE LLC’s survey on OpenStack adoption trends found that more than eighty percent of enterprises are either planning to, ...
China’s Meituan-Dianping scores $3bn in tech’s biggest-ever funding round
A Chinese firm that hawks movie tickets and restaurant bookings among other things has just become the recipient of what it claims is the single largest non-IPO funding round ever raised in the tech industry. Meituan-Dianping, which The Wall Street Journal describes as an online-to-offline (O2O) provider whose products are somewhat similar to the group-buying ...
Kirill Tatarinov snags Citrix CEO role as activist investor pressure mounts
Citrix Systems, Inc. has landed itself a new CEO and president in the shape of ex-Microsoft executive Kirill Tatarinov. Tatarinov held a variety of positions during his eight year tenure at Microsoft, acting as its president and executive vice president, as well as holding down a role as corporate vice president of its Business Solutions ...
Hortonworks shares plunge 22% on news of secondary IPO
Bad vibes among shareholders of Hortonworks Inc. resulted in the company’s share price collapsing 22 percent yesterday. The stock fell following an announcement that that company is looking to raise $100 million in a secondary share offering, often referred to as a “secondary IPO”. Hortonworks is one of the three major Hadoop vendors, alongside Cloudera ...
Microsoft announces a great cloud giveaway: $1 billion up for grabs
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is in a somewhat generous mood, and has decided to donate his company’s expertise in cloud computing to the “public good” by giving away $1 billion worth of cloud services to nonprofits over the next three years. Altogether, Microsoft wants to support around 70,000 nonprofit organizations using its cloud product, including ...