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Amazon will start paying some Kindle authors for each page read

By Eric David Jun 22, 2015

Amazon Inc is introducing a new payment model for certain Kindle authors that will pay them by pages read, rewarding the people who write books that have more than catchy titles. The new pay…

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What you missed in Cloud: Insight-as-a-service

By Maria Deutscher Jun 22, 2015

The world’s top public clouds are able to accommodate as much data as an organization can throw at them, but that scalability often proves a double-edged sword when it comes to controlling costs. That challenge…

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VMware targets new DevOps tools at Docker

By Maria Deutscher Jun 22, 2015

Alongside the fresh-faced startups showcasing their wares at DockerCon 2015 this morning is VMware Inc. with two new tools aimed at helping developers take better advantage of the wildly popular containerization engine in their…

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What you missed in Big Data: Optimized knowledge

By Maria Deutscher Jun 22, 2015

Machine learning returned to the center of attention last week for the second time in a row after a little-known startup called SigOpt Inc. raised $2 million in funding from two of Silicon Valley’s…

Bitcoin alt Trest takes off in Cameroon of all places after a successful pilot program

By Duncan Riley Jun 22, 2015

Indian cryptocurrency startup Trestor has completed a successful trial of its digital currency Trest in the African nation of Cameroon, demonstrating how altcoin can play a role within the third world. The pilot program…

Red Hat highlights Linux container adoption barriers

By Mike Wheatley Jun 22, 2015

For all the buzz about Linux containers, production deployments remain few and far between, and there’s no shortage of surveys and studies attempting to identify the biggest barriers to adoption. Red Hat Inc. is…

AMD denies reports it’s to split up its business

By Mike Wheatley Jun 22, 2015

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) is reportedly looking to make some changes to its corporate structure so it can better compete with Intel. According to Reuters, AMD wants to split or spin-off…

Google accused of spying on users with audio listener bundled with Chromium

By Duncan Riley Jun 22, 2015

Is Google spying on what you are saying via your computer’s microphone? They well could be if you use Chromium, and that’s the crux a new accusation from Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the…

Taylor Swift takes on Apple Music and wins, but shows herself up as a hypocrite in the process

By Duncan Riley Jun 22, 2015

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Shakespeare, it isn’t, but whether you’re a fan of the music of Taylor Swift or not, no one can argue with the fact that she has become highly successful.…

One scientist’s perspective on Spark | #SparkInsight

By Amber Johnson Jun 19, 2015

Fernando Perez is a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a founding investigator of Berkeley Institute for Data Science. In addition, Perez is a particle physicist who worked with the Python Project that…