Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses
By hook, crook, negligence or equipment malfunction, $40 billion worth of goods pass through checkout lanes at retail stores around the world each year without being scanned. Be it ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Machine Learning
Machine learning technology is poised to move from niche data analytics applications to mainstream enterprise big data campaigns over the next two years, a recent vendor survey suggests. SoftServe, ...Full Article
Intel Launches ‘Knights Landing’ Phi for Machine Learning, HPC
From ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, Intel Corp. launched the second-generation Xeon Phi product family, code-named Knights Landing, aimed at HPC and machine learning workloads. The company had been shipping ...Full Article
DevOps Gets a New Analytics Tool
Among the growing number of uses for machine learning-based analytics is providing insight into how the latest software release in a continuous delivery cycle affects overall IT operations. With ...Full Article
Machine Learning Leveraged to Spot Ransomware
Everyone seemingly is complaining about the spread of ransomware, and now somebody is trying to do something about it using machine learning-based behavioral analytics techniques to track suspicious behavior ...Full Article
Onset of AI Prompts New Security Concerns
Intelligent, often autonomous, systems are making headway in the datacenter as developers, struggling to keep up, seek to offload manual processes by adopting new approaches, such as prescriptive IT ...Full Article
IBM Shifts Spark Development to its Cloud
IBM upped its investment in Apache Spark this week via a cloud-based development platform that would expand data science and developer access to various flavors of Spark, including a ...Full Article
Facebook AI Effort Looks to Extend Search Engines
Facebook is rolling out a "deep-learning based text understanding engine" that leverages neural network architectures and promises to challenge the Google search engine by bringing "near-human accuracy" to the ...Full Article
IBM Launches 2nd Cognitive Computing Center in a Month
IBM today announced a multi-year, cognitive computing collaboration with the University of Maryland in Baltimore on an Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory (ACCL). It’s the second such move in a ...Full Article
