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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).Andrew Ng Thinks AI Can Revive US Manufacturing
December 15th, 2017 Comments Off on Andrew Ng Thinks AI Can Revive US Manufacturing
AI pioneer Andrew Ng is launching a startup that would initially focus on revitalizing manufacturing, a strategy that parallels the first enterprise deployments of Internet of Things technologies. Separately, Ng (shown in his "bunny suit," left) announced partnership with ...
IBM Expands ‘Quantum Ready’ Effort
December 14th, 2017 Comments Off on IBM Expands ‘Quantum Ready’ Effort
IBM has enlisted large banks and automakers along with electronics, chemical and materials manufacturers to its quantum computing initiative designed to explore enterprise applications if and when the technology is ready for commercialization. The company announced further expansion of ...
Consumers Ready to Push Back, GDPR Survey Warns
December 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Consumers Ready to Push Back, GDPR Survey Warns
Two thousand and eighteen is shaping up as the year of consumer pushback as strict data regulations give the generators of boundless data new rights to see and demand that companies erase personal data under pending European Union rules. ...
Microsoft Embraces Kubernetes for Cloud Backup
December 11th, 2017 Comments Off on Microsoft Embraces Kubernetes for Cloud Backup
Microsoft is collaborating with Kubernetes specialist Heptio on a backup and disaster recovery tool for the Azure cloud as well as using the startup's Ark platform to move Kubernetes container orchestrator applications between datacenters and the Microsoft cloud. Heptio ...
AI Researchers Assemble ‘Moments in Time’
December 8th, 2017 Comments Off on AI Researchers Assemble ‘Moments in Time’
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IBM Watson's unit have released a massive data set containing 1 million annotated video clips designed to spur development of new machine vision technologies. Potential applications range from self-driving car navigation ...
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
December 7th, 2017 Comments Off on Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a boon to graphics chipmakers, for example, critics warn that Bitcoin ...
Containers Marching to Production, Survey Finds
December 6th, 2017 Comments Off on Containers Marching to Production, Survey Finds
The rate at which containers have moved into production applications has increased three-fold over the last 18 months, according to a survey of cloud native technologies. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) said this week the steady enterprise embrace ...
VMware Unveils Hybrid Cloud Tools
December 5th, 2017 Comments Off on VMware Unveils Hybrid Cloud Tools
VMware is folding management features into the latest version of its cloud infrastructure as another way of easing the enterprise deployment of hybrid clouds. Along with automating the provisioning of cloud components across hybrid clouds via its vRealize suite, ...
Bryant Departs Intel For Google Cloud
December 5th, 2017 Comments Off on Bryant Departs Intel For Google Cloud
Google has upped its cloud game with its recruitment of Diane Bryant, the former Intel Corp.'s datacenter boss who becomes chief operating officer of Google Cloud. Bryant, an engineer who worked her way up through the ranks of Intel ...
Cost, Security Issues Persist Amid Cloud Boom
December 1st, 2017 Comments Off on Cost, Security Issues Persist Amid Cloud Boom
The billowing cloud market that is growing at an estimated 40 percent annually is being driven to new heights by the enterprise embrace of multi-cloud strategies along with a shift toward cloud native technologies ranging from application containers and ...