Where to watch Apple Watch Spring Forward event
Apple is slated to host its Spring Forward media event today, which will be held at the Yerba Buena Center at 10 a.m. PT. So what can we expect at the event? All signs…
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Wikibon analyst: Open Data Platform debate is all about the money
The debate over the Open Data Platform presently raging in the Big Data community is, at its core, about money and is generated by the very different business models of the two main Hadoop…
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Cognitive Computing: A new generation of analysis for the Big Data age
Cognitive computing is a new form of computational analysis, combining leading-edge technologies including machine learning and natural language processing, to automate analysis of unstructured, and in particular written and spoken, data. Despite some claims…
Riot Games on how AI can improve online communities | #GDC2015
By Eric David
Riot Games’ League of Legends is one of the most popular games in esports and frequently sees over 100,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch.tv, but it also has a reputation for a sometimes toxic player base…
Nielsen’s brainy approach to Twitter is the obviously smart thing to do
By Eric David
Current Nielsen ratings do a poor job of tracking the new landscape of television—sometimes it even gets it entirely wrong, but Nielsen recently conducted a brain study that could take it into the realm…
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What you missed in Big Data: Web-scale analytics for the masses
The web-scale crowd reaffirmed its place at the forefront of the analytics movement last week with the introduction of several new technologies aimed at helping the rest of the industry try to catch up.…
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What you missed in Cloud: Where openness meets security
Last week saw cloud computing continue its breakneck evolution as a number of key players stepped up to move the dial on some of the biggest challenges still standing in the way of adoption.…
Google suffers new cloud outage, promises to be “better prepared”
Google’s cloud platform suffered another outage over the weekend in an incident that seems similar to a more serious brownout that took place last month. Google said the latest outage affecting its Compute Engine,…
Gartner: Legacy vendors stay on top of the data analytics tree
The old legacy database vendors might still be the top dogs when it comes to data analytics, but their Hadoop-wielding rivals are hot on their heels, according to Gartner Inc.’s latest magic quadrant for…
The side effects of mind control: Living with Avatars (Part One)
There has been hype for many years concerning world-changing virtual world (VR) technology, but that technology has so far always fallen short of our sci-fi-honed, high expectations, or misgivings. Over the last year, people…