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Australian police ran a child porn site for nearly a year to catch pedophiles

By Duncan Riley Oct 8, 2017

Raising new questions about how far law enforcement should go to catch criminals, police in Queensland, Australia, ran a child pornography site on the dark web for nearly a year as a “honey trap”…

Emerging Tech

Alphabet and Tesla offer services for Puerto Rico hurricane recovery effort

By Duncan Riley Oct 8, 2017

Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Inc. are both planning to provide support services to assist the people of Puerto Rico in their recovery post-Hurricane Maria. Alphabet, the parent company of Google LLC, has received approval from…

Big Data

Big data is changing machine learning, from nice-to-have to a must-have

By R. Danes Oct 6, 2017

The big data tsunami bears exciting new profit potential; it also brings with it some daunting challenges, thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation’s strict privacy rules, set to be enforced next year. Machine learning…

Big Data

Syncsort takes more steps to drain the data swamp

By Mark Albertson Oct 6, 2017

If the definition of a swamp is low, uncultivated ground saturated with water, then a data swamp is found in enterprise architectures that are inundated with too much information to handle. The push is…

Big Data

Is it too soon to start talking about hybrid data?

By Mark Albertson Oct 6, 2017

There’s hybrid cloud, hybrid clusters, hybrid cars, and even hybrid theory (crossing varieties of fruit). But the mention of hybrid data will draw quizzical looks and prompt some head scratching. Actian Corp., a Silicon…

Women in Tech

Businesses draft women to fill tech skills shortage, says Anita Borg Institute’s Telle Whitney

By R. Danes Oct 6, 2017

The tech industry’s skills shortage is sending companies to organizations such as the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology in search of ways to find and foster talent. Over the years, the organization…

Apps

Facebook Workplace tests a desktop app with screen sharing

By Eric David Oct 6, 2017

Facebook Inc. has released a new desktop chat app for for its enterprise focused Workplace platform, but so far the social media giant is not making a big deal out of it. The company…

Big Data

Here’s Robert Herjavec’s pitch: Manage data security better or face the consequences

By Mark Albertson Oct 6, 2017

Robert Herjavec (pictured) is known to most people as a “Shark Investor,” one of the stars on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank.” On the show, he and other figures from the world of…

Infra

Shares of data center operator Switch jump 30% following $531M IPO

By Maria Deutscher Oct 6, 2017

Switch Inc.’s first day as a public company is off to a strong start. Shares of the Las Vegas-based data center operator, which hosts infrastructure for many of the world’s best-known tech firms, started trading at…

Apps

In the end of an internet era, AOL’s pioneering Instant Messenger will go offline Dec. 15

By Kyt Dotson Oct 6, 2017

One of the internet’s first instant messaging services will go dark in two months when AOL Instant Messenger goes offline. Oath Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that now owns the AOL brand, officially…

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Australian police ran a child porn site for nearly a year to catch pedophiles

Alphabet and Tesla offer services for Puerto Rico hurricane recovery effort

Big data is changing machine learning, from nice-to-have to a must-have

Syncsort takes more steps to drain the data swamp

Is it too soon to start talking about hybrid data?

Businesses draft women to fill tech skills shortage, says Anita Borg Institute’s Telle Whitney

Facebook Workplace tests a desktop app with screen sharing

Here’s Robert Herjavec’s pitch: Manage data security better or face the consequences

Shares of data center operator Switch jump 30% following $531M IPO

In the end of an internet era, AOL’s pioneering Instant Messenger will go offline Dec. 15

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