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Pro tip: If you run an illegal marketplace, don’t link it to your personal Hotmail account

By Duncan Riley Jul 20, 2017

The disappearance of darknet marketplace AlphaBay was first thought to be an exit scam, then was linked to the alleged suicide of one of its owners before credit was claimed by the Department of Justice. Whatever…

Emerging Tech

Elon Musk says he got OK for a New York-DC Hyperloop, officials say he didn’t

By James Farrell Jul 20, 2017

Elon Musk has caused quite a bit of confusion over the last 24 hours, tweeting to his fans that he received “government approval” for a Hyperloop connecting New York to Philadelphia to Baltimore to…

Emerging Tech

Graphcore raises $30M to develop its dedicated machine learning chips

By Duncan Riley Jul 20, 2017

British machine learning startup Graphcore Ltd. Thursday said it has raised $30 million to push its vision of making chips for machine learning. The Series B round was led by Atomico and included existing investors Amadeus Capital,…

Big Data

Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa

By Mike Wheatley Jul 20, 2017

Amazon.com Inc. made a significant acquisition earlier this year in order to “improve” its voice-powered Alexa digital assistant, according to reports. Amazon splashed out “tens of millions of dollars” to acquire Santa Barbara, California-based…

Big Data

Will serverless functions beat DevOps in race to democratize analytics?

By R. Danes Jul 20, 2017

Enterprise data scientists and developers fed up with data that just sits there and doesn’t make money might take heart in a prediction from Ali Ghodsi (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder of Databricks Inc.…

Big Data

Can big data DevOps see what abstraction is hiding?

By R. Danes Jul 20, 2017

DevOps that have worked well in other areas of information technology can’t hack it in big data, according to Ash Munshi (pictured), chief executive officer of Pepperdata Inc. “While agile and all that still works, the…

Cloud

Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high

By Paul Gillin Jul 20, 2017

Microsoft Corp. crushed analysts’ estimates for sales and earnings in the quarter ended June 30, providing further evidence that it has successfully turned the corner from packaged-software company into cloud services provider. Investors rejoiced,…

Big Data

A game of data science: the analytics architecture behind Riot Games

By Aaron Melgar Jul 20, 2017

With the help of modern analytics, Riot Games Inc. developed a highly successful computer game called League of Legends, in which players form teams of champions and compete with other players around the world.…

Big Data

Confluent makes Kafka easier in the cloud, grants new data powers to small business

By Nelson Williams Jul 20, 2017

Where data processing is concerned, speed is life. Companies can ship off some workloads to batch processing, but they need to process the critical stuff in real-time while a customer or system interaction is…

Big Data

How Spark helped build a community inside a distributed company

By Nelson Williams Jul 20, 2017

It’s hard to appreciate just how large organizations can be until someone has to get all those departments and splintered businesses talking to each other. They need a common platform to share data. Hewlett…

all stories

Pro tip: If you run an illegal marketplace, don’t link it to your personal Hotmail account

Elon Musk says he got OK for a New York-DC Hyperloop, officials say he didn’t

Graphcore raises $30M to develop its dedicated machine learning chips

Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa

Will serverless functions beat DevOps in race to democratize analytics?

Can big data DevOps see what abstraction is hiding?

Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high

A game of data science: the analytics architecture behind Riot Games

Confluent makes Kafka easier in the cloud, grants new data powers to small business

How Spark helped build a community inside a distributed company

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