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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).IoT Gets a Security Upgrade
February 21st, 2018 Comments Off on IoT Gets a Security Upgrade
Processor specialist Arm is extending its push into the Internet of Things security market with a device authentication effort based on the cellular technology mainstay, the SIM card. Meanwhile, a batch of IoT device certification and network gateways also ...
Crypto-Miners’ Latest Target: Containers
February 16th, 2018 Comments Off on Crypto-Miners’ Latest Target: Containers
The crypto-currency mining craze has now extended from hijacking supercomputers and public computing resources to include application containers, according to a security vendor. Researchers at Aqua Security said this week they followed up on what was described as widespread ...
Cloud-Native Group Promotes Rules for Serverless Computing
February 14th, 2018 Comments Off on Cloud-Native Group Promotes Rules for Serverless Computing
Serverless computing, a cloud framework in which a host provider allocates resources as needed rather than charging upfront for dedicated capacity, is emerging as a viable enterprise option for cloud-native workloads. A white paper on serverless technology released this ...
Arm Launches ML Processors for Edge Devices
February 13th, 2018 Comments Off on Arm Launches ML Processors for Edge Devices
Arm Ltd., the U.K. chip intellectual property vendor, is rolling out a machine learning platform designed to boost the functionality of devices at the network edge, beginning with an object detection capability. Arm, which is focusing heavily on Internet ...
Oracle Expands Cloud Regions, Automates Services
February 12th, 2018 Comments Off on Oracle Expands Cloud Regions, Automates Services
Cloud contender Oracle Corp. is expanding its infrastructure with plans to open a dozen new datacenter regions along with new database and other automated services for handling artificial intelligence and blockchain workloads. Oracle announced the datacenter expansion at a ...
Blockchain Startups Seek to Speed AI Development
February 9th, 2018 Comments Off on Blockchain Startups Seek to Speed AI Development
Among the approaches to ramping up AI innovation is applying blockchain technology as a new kind of marketplace to help open-source developers find AI building blocks that can be quickly implemented. In turn, the digital ledger technology can be ...
Startup Brings HPC Containers to the Enterprise
February 8th, 2018 Comments Off on Startup Brings HPC Containers to the Enterprise
The driving force behind Singularity, the popular HPC container technology, is bringing the open source platform to the enterprise with the launch of a new venture, Sylabs Inc., which emerged this week from stealth mode. Sylabs CEO Gregory Kurtzer, ...
Chip Market Soared on Memory Demand
February 7th, 2018 Comments Off on Chip Market Soared on Memory Demand
Global spending on semiconductors jumped a hefty 17 percent in 2017, driven by demand and corresponding price hikes for memory in datacenters and early industrial deployments of the Internet of Things. While memory prices and demand are expected to ...
Graphics Apps Shift to Cloud
February 6th, 2018 Comments Off on Graphics Apps Shift to Cloud
Graphics-heavy applications based on Linux or Windows can now be accessed remotely via the public cloud with the availability of Teradici Corp.'s cloud connection software on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. Based on the Canadian company's PC-over-IP technology, ...
Google-Backed Study Seeks Middle Ground in AI Debate
February 5th, 2018 Comments Off on Google-Backed Study Seeks Middle Ground in AI Debate
The debate over the benefits and pitfalls of AI is evolving as alarmists and cheerleaders are joined by realists operating on the assumption that machine learning is here stay, workers must be retrained along with other technology investments while ...