Bitcoin is Having a ‘Halving’ Amidst a Pandemic
In the world of Bitcoin a “halving” takes place about every four years. This past Monday, May 11, 2020, witnessed the third such event. It’s a big deal. It ...Full Article
Startup MemVerge Launches Memory-centric Mission
Memory situated at the center of the computing universe, replacing processing, has long been envisioned as instrumental to radically improved data center systems performance. Combined with accelerated processing (GPUs, ...Full Article
Blockchain: Streamlining Disrupted Supply Chains During COVID Crisis
Supply chains are increasingly subject to disruption in recent years from trade wars and pandemics, as well as from new demands driven by new technologies, regulations and materials. Modern ...Full Article
IBM Launches AIOps, 5G Network Edge, Financial Cloud Products at Digital Think
IBM issued several product announcements this morning to kick off the company’s annual Think conference (this year called Think Digital) that include automated IT infrastructure monitoring and diagnosis (i.e., ...Full Article
GPU-Driven Near-time Valuation Coming to Derivatives Market – Microsoft
Microsoft Azure and an AI startup named Riskfuel – along with Nvidia GPUs – have teamed to deliver deep learning based near-time valuations of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, a capability ...Full Article
IBM Flat Despite Cloud Gains, HPE Declares Dividend
In a financial earnings season like none before, two of the world’s largest enterprise IT infrastructure vendors appear headed in opposite directions. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) declared a ...Full Article
Linux Foundation Expands Fintech Reach
The financial services sector continues to embrace the open source movement, often playing a leading role in establishing standards and best practices. A prime example is the pivotal role ...Full Article
AI + HPC Aimed at GDPR, Data Privacy Compliance
In the banking, financial services and insurance industries, data privacy compliance is an eternally daunting challenge, and now data management consultancy Vaco and NEC X, the "innovation accelerator" arm ...Full Article
FintechAI on Wall Street: Robo-Analysts Beat Human Stock Pickers
Think of it, you kick back while a stock market AI makes you richer than Wall Street stock pickers. Besides the lottery, we defy you to come up with ...Full Article
Trading Data Added to Google BigQuery
A huge batch of tick data, used by financial traders to track the minimum upward or downward movement of stock prices, has been added to Google Cloud Platform, allowing ...Full Article