Feds, Tech Industry Mull Use of Cell Phone Data for COVID-19 Hot Spot Analytics
Google and a host of other technology companies are in discussions with the federal government and health experts over the use of Americans’ cell phone tracking data to analyze ...Full Article
Crowdsourcing at Massive Scale Takes on COVID-19
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy seen in a console – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world ...Full Article
DoD Will Revisit JEDI Cloud Contract
The Pentagon will reboot its department-wide cloud contract after a federal judge refereeing a protest filed by Amazon Web Services indicated the cloud giant was likely to succeed in ...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
Investors Flock to AI Chip Startups
As the market for AI processors continues to expand, well-heeled chip startups are emerging to challenge market leaders like Nvidia. Among them is the Israeli startup, Hailo, which announced ...Full Article
5G Rollouts Predicated on Security, Coverage
The rollout of 5G networks is gaining momentum for use cases like digital health services as potential early deployers gauge the security, reliability and reach of the next-generation of ...Full Article
AI in the Fight to Detect and Cure Coronavirus
The COVID-19 coronavirus is rapidly spreading around the globe, threatening communities, alarming financial markets and, in many cases, forcing national epidemic response teams to quickly update and implement years-old ...Full Article
Micron Deep Learning Accelerator Gets Memory Boost
Deep learning accelerators based on chip architectures coupled with high-bandwidth memory are emerging to enable near real-time processing of machine learning algorithms. Memory chip specialist Micron Technology argues that ...Full Article
‘Shadow IoT’ Undermining Network Security
The majority of Internet of Things transactions are unsecured, adding a new enterprise security threat as industrial and retail IoT traffic begins to ramp up. An enterprise IoT survey ...Full Article
Energy Giant Eni to Take Back Industry HPC Crown with HPC5
With the launch of its Dell-built HPC5 system, Italian energy company Eni regains its position atop the industrial supercomputing leaderboard. At 52-petaflops peak, HPC5 should easily crack the top ...Full Article
