Blockchain Advances With First Real Estate Deal
The blockchain ecosystem continues to evolve as competing industry alliances seek to push the transaction database technology deeper into enterprises, including the first international real estate transaction. Blockchain serves ...Full Article
The Week in Cybersecurity: Kaspersky Out in the Cold; Azure Releases ‘Confidential Computing’
Cybersecurity – along with national security and Russian espionage – are very much in the news, and the two concerns came together this week with the announcement by the ...Full Article
Equifax Ignored Apache Struts Patch For Months
In the aftermath of the second massive security breach at Equifax Inc. in four years, the Apache Foundation confirmed this week the data breach stemmed from the consumer credit ...Full Article
U of Illinois, NCSA Launch First US Nanomanufacturing Node
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign together with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have launched the United States’s first computational node aimed at the development of nanomanufacturing ...Full Article
Drones and GPUs Provide AI Boost for Inspection Firm
A company backed by GE’s venture capital arm is using NVidia GPUs, deep learning frameworks, and drones to automate the inspection of physical assets in the oil and gas, ...Full Article
IBM’s Latest AI Effort Targets Algorithms, Physics
Investment continues to flow into artificial intelligence research, especially in key areas such as AI algorithms that promise to move the technology from specialized tasks to broader applications that ...Full Article
AI-driven Diagnostics for Network of Boston-based Healthcare Providers
The Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS), Boston, is at the confluence of major technology trends driving the healthcare industry: AI-based diagnostics of large volumes of medical images, shared ...Full Article
Unlearning Racism and Sexism in Learning Machines
What if a learning machine learns the wrong lessons? In a world where software and machine intelligence increasingly are placed in decision making roles – such as, say, helping ...Full Article
Crypto-Currency ‘Mining’ Boosts GPU Demand
The booming GPU market propelled by new implementations ranging from "GPU clouds" for deep learning to HPC applications is getting an additional lift from growing demand for "add-in" graphics ...Full Article
CSRA Emerges as U.S. IT Powerhouse
A well connected IT services provider formed through the merger of established government contractors is steadily extending its reach from providing cloud services the U.S. military to training the ...Full Article
