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How Microsoft’s Cortana used Big Data to predict the FIFA World Cup
Celebrity Big Data scientist Nate Silver can step aside. And so can Paul the Octopus (anyone remember him?) for that matter. There’s a new god of football predictions in town, and it goes by the name of Cortana. Microsoft’s answer to Siri successfully predicted the outcome of all 15 games of the elimination stage of ...
Evolving IT security: Digital Risk Officers to emerge by 2017
The rapid pace of technological evolution represents a massive challenge for companies whose operations are based on a digital business model. In order to manage risk and shore up security, we’re going to see a new trend of CEOs introducing Digital Risk Officers (DROs) to take on such challenges. Gartner highlights this trend in its ...
IBM adds Elastic Storage to its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure
IBM is revamping the way it does cloud storage. Having already committed some $1.2 billion to establish data centers for rent in every country where it needs them, Big Blue is now offering a new hardware/software/storage capability for cloud and hybrid users that it says can lead to 90 percent savings. Key to all of ...
Password managers hacked: Researchers find ‘critical’ vulnerabilities
If you’re using a popular password manager your credentials might not be entirely safe, following the discovery of several vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain access. University of California Berkeley researchers have discovered a number of quickly-patched vulnerabilities in LastPass, My1Login, NeedMyPassword, PasswordBox and RoboForm. They described their work as a “wake-up call” for ...
DARPA shows off bullets that can be steered to a target
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has made significant progress in building ‘steerable’ bullets that can be directed to a target, and now the agency has released video footage of the first prototype in action. DARPA’s intelligent munition has been dubbed EXACTO (EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance), and the footage shows two .50-cal rounds being maneuvered ...
Is wearable tech wearing thin in the enterprise?
Wearable tech is all the rage. Almost every other day, new gadgets that can be strapped on, attached or worn seem to hit the headlines. Smartwatches, smartglasses, fitness trackers and augmented reality headsets are just a few of the most well known, but there are many more. All these devices have something in common – ...
Amazon throws Zocalo in the ring to box with Box & Dropbox
Amazon has just made a move into the cloud business services market with a direct attack on Dropbox and Box – it’s launched Zocalo, billed as a secure enterprise storage service. Zocalo, which is the Spanish word for plaza or town square, launches as a limited preview today. According to Amazon, Zocalo is a “fully ...
Verizon to Netflix: Traffic bottlenecks are all your fault, so shut it.
Verizon might have just won its war of words with Netflix over network access for streaming videos. Verizon’s David Young, vice-president of federal regulatory affairs, landed the seemingly fatal blow in a report posted onto the company’s Public Policy blog, in which he said Netflix’s claims that it deliberately throttles its traffic are false. Rather, ...
Google’s Kubernetes Docker container manager gets big backers
Some of the world’s biggest tech companies are lining up to help develop the open-source Kubernetes software container management system that search engine giant Google announced last month. CoreOS, Docker, IBM, Microsoft, Mesosphere, Red Hat and SaltStack revealed on Thursday that they’re teaming up with the chaps at Mountainview to develop the open-source software that ...
DARPA’s latest hair-brained scheme: Implantable memory chips
Brain implants could finally become a reality, thanks to those crazy, lovable boffins over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA. The agency, which has been working on all kinds of hair-brained schemes from laser guided bullets to Spiderman-like climbing pads and self-destructing microprocessors, is now attempting to build memory-restoring chips ...