How APIs know more about you than your BFF [infographic]
Most of us spend hours in front of our computers or mobile devices. In fact, we spend so much time that sometimes we feel like the sites we visit, or the apps we use,…
Larry Page wants make your medical data public knowledge
Our medical history data is about as private as it’s possible to get, so when someone as high profile as Google founder Larry Page calls for all of this to be made public, the…
Tech CEOs should stop whining : Do something to protect user data
Big name tech CEOs gathered in Washington last week to sound an alarm that Big Data and the cloud may never live up to their potential. Why? Because of problems with privacy, security and…
City of Paradigm: The Big Data DevOps of customers and user experience
By Kyt Dotson
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an…
NSA’s lawyer claims tech firms DID know about PRISM spying all along
Technology firms like Google, Facebook and Microsoft were fully aware of the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program and its mass monitoring of web traffic, says its general counsel Rajesh De. Speaking at a meeting organized…
The White House unleashes Big Data to fight Climate Change
The White House is reaching out to budding data scientists to help in its fight against climate change. Yesterday, the Obama administration gave an announcement about its new Climate Data Initiative – a program…
Tango raises $215M from Alibaba to take on WhatsApp
SMS is slowly dying as people embrace instant messaging apps as a form of communication. They’re growing in popularity every day, and because of this smart investors are backing these services big time. TangoMe,…
Cloudera, Platfora funding signals new phase of maturity for Hadoop
Enterprise CIOs and institutional investors alike are flocking to the Big Data camp as the industry drives new and increasingly compelling use cases for exploiting the vast amounts of heterogeneous information being generated today.…
Is MapReduce merely a new implementation of old ideas writ to scale?
By Saroj Kar
Big Data as an industry buzzword doesn’t appear to be fading in popularity any time soon. Big Data is more of a business problem and everyone agrees with the Big Data definitions currently in…
Python 3.4.0 release introduces PEP 450 integration and new modules
By Saroj Kar
After around 18 months of development, Python 3.4 has been released. There were no new language changes for this release, but there were many new features in the standard library and CPython implementation. Python…