Give to get: Inside Facebook’s open source operation
By Robert Hof
In an interview with SiliconANGLE, Facebook open source chief James Pearce explained the company's approach to contributing to open source projects.
By Robert Hof
Making Hadoop’s implementation easier by assessing past problems | #HS16Dublin
While Hadoop has been making its way into more venues of utilization, some representatives at this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland, have been finding new paths forward by going back to examine what…
Can Hadoop get past enterprise-grade roadblocks? | #HS16Dublin
The keynote for day two of Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland, exhibited a high level of technical information with speakers from Yahoo, BMC Software and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE). Each of the speakers spoke about their…
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Azure Media Analytics lets enterprises tap their video feeds and user content
Microsoft Corp. wants to help organizations get as much use out of their video assets as the rest of their unstructured data with a new set of cloud services for processing visual content that…
API unifying platform MapR’s goal | #HS16Dublin
An increasing number of discussions and presentations revealing ways to effectively utilize Hadoop with regard to Big Data and efficiency improvement emerged during the second day of Hadoop Summit 2016 in Dublin, and finding points of…
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Google’s AI engine, TensorFlow, can now scale across thousands of machines
Five months after its initial release, TensorFlow may finally start finding use in large-scale artificial intelligence projects. The credit goes to the new iteration of the framework that Google rolled out yesterday, which introduces…
Complexity and cost of ownership the Achilles’ heel for Hadoop, analysts say | #HS16Dublin
Coming together at the end of day two for the Hadoop Summit Dublin 2016 conference, John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, shared a table to…
Rise of the robots: Finding a place for people in the business models of the future | #HS16Dublin
The business world is on the cusp of a great transformation. Digital technologies are changing the world, yet the most profound revolution in how business gets done is still to come. Digital assets are…
Freshdesk acquires Airwoot to add machine learning to social customer service platform
By Paul Gillin
Cloud-based customer service software provider Freshdesk Inc. made its fifth acquisition in the past eight months, snapping up Airwoot, a startup division of MemeticLabs Technologies Pvt. Ltd. that uses machine learning to automate the…
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DigitalGenius raises $4.1M for its customer service bot
The competition in the customer service automation space kicked up another notch today after DigitalGenius Inc. announced that it’s secured $4.1 million in funding from a group of nine institutional investors. According to the…