IBM Watson invests in personal health company
IBM's Watson group has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Pathway Genomics to help the company deliver an app that gives personalized advice to users based on their genetic information, as…
View ArticleBackblaze has figured out the biggest predictors of hard drive failure
Cloud storage provider Backblaze continues to share the wealth of information (not to mention hardware designs) it's learning as it operates its 40,000-hard-drive, 100-petabyte storage service. On...
View ArticleOn Reddit, Geoff Hinton talks Google and future of deep learning
University of Toronto researcher and part-time Google distinguished researcher Geoff Hinton is responsible for many recent advances in deep learning, and many advances in neural network research over...
View ArticleThe internet of things isn’t producing a data deluge … yet
It might seem like the world is awash is in connected devices, but we haven't seen anything yet. But the companies storing data from all those sensors say they're not worried…
View ArticleGoogle, Stanford build hybrid neural networks that can explain photos
Researchers at both Stanford University and Google have fused state-of-the-art neural network techniques for vision and language in order to create hybrid systems that can analyze images and produce...
View ArticleTwitter now indexes every tweet ever
Twitter has built a new search index that allows users to surface all public tweets since the service launched in 2006. At nearly half a trillion documents and a scale of…
View ArticleTelling stories from tweets is about more than time and number
Twitter data editor Simon Rogers took the stage at Gigaom's Roadmap conference to talk about making sense of messy data with good visualizations. It can be hard work, but also very…
View ArticleEducation startup Galvanize buys data science school Zipfian Academy
An education startup called Galvanize, which focuses on tech workers and entrepreneurs, has acquired a San Francisco company called Zipfian Academy that offers a 12-week program in data science....
View ArticleWhy eHarmony is rebuilding itself atop Hadoop and (probably) OpenStack
Dating site eHarmony is overhauling its IT infrastructure with a lot of open source technology. CTO Thod Nguyen explains what the company is looking to use and why it made those…
View ArticleEx-Heroku CEO Byron Sebastian joins the board at Codenvy
Byron Sebastian, the former CEO of Heroku who was most recently an executive vice president at Salesforce.com, is joining the board of directors at developer darling Codenvy. The company sells a cloud...
View ArticleDeep learning might help you get an ultrasound at Walgreens
A new startup called Butterfly Network, from genomic-technology pioneer Jonathan Rothberg, hopes to improve the world of medical imaging using advanced chip technologies, tablet devices and deep...
View ArticleThe Netflix cloud team loves OSS — and would love to stop building it
Netflix is becoming famous for its open source cloud-computing tools, and two of its senior members explained why on this week's Structure Show podcast. However, they note, while they love the…
View ArticleWhy technology and content are inseparable at Netflix
Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt spoke with Gigaom about how important data science and cloud computing are to the company's business, as well as why the internet is the perfect…
View ArticleA startup wants to quantify video content using computer vision
Computer vision has seen some major advances over the past couple of years, and a New York-based startup called Dextro wants to take the field to a new level by making it easier…
View ArticlePeople read an awful lot about Apple, Google and their smartphones
With the year nearly at an end, it seemed like a good time to take a look at which Gigaom posts generated the most traffic during 2014. The results speak for themselves: people really…
View ArticleThe internet of things isn’t producing a data deluge … yet
It might seem like the world is awash is in connected devices, but we haven't seen anything yet. But the companies storing data from all those sensors say they're not worried…
View ArticleGoogle, Stanford build hybrid neural networks that can explain photos
Researchers at both Stanford University and Google have fused state-of-the-art neural network techniques for vision and language in order to create hybrid systems that can analyze images and produce...
View ArticleGoogle is shutting down its Freebase knowledge base
Google announced Tuesday that the company is shutting down Freebase, the crowdsourced knowledge base it acquired in 2010 when it bought Metaweb. Freebase is a popular source of information about topics…
View ArticleTeradata dives further into Hadoop with RainStor acquisition
Data warehouse vendor has made its fourth acquisition of the year, announcing on Wednesday it has bought data-archiving specialist RainStor for an undisclosed amount. RainStor builds an archival system...
View ArticleIBM bringing its skin-cancer computer vision system to hospitals
IBM says it has developed a machine learning system that identified images of skin cancer with better than 95 percent accuracy in experiments, and it's now teaming up with doctors to…
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