TeraDeep wants to bring deep learning to your dumb devices
Open the closet of any gadget geek or computer nerd, and you're likely to find a lot of skeletons. Stacked deep in a cardboard box or Tupperware tub, there they are:…
View ArticleCloudera acquires self-service data-modeling startup Xplain.io
Hadoop vendor Cloudera is moving closer to the business intelligence space by acquiring a startup called Xplain.io. The company's software analyzes users' offline queries in order to determine which...
View ArticleGoogle had its biggest quarter ever for data center spending. Again
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company's earnings report released last week. The web giant spent more than $3.5 billion...
View ArticleWhy opening up its Cosmos big data system would be the right move for Microsoft
There has been a rumor floating around since August (first, and subsequently, reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet) that Microsoft is preparing to release its Cosmos big data system as…
View ArticleAnalytics startup Mode wants to give SQL a shiny home in the cloud
Mode, a startup that's trying to be something like a GitHub for data scientists, has added new features to its collaboration platform that make it easier to write SQL queries and…
View ArticlePhotoTime is a deep learning application for the rest of us
A Sunnyvale, California, startup called Orbeus has developed what could be the best application yet for letting everyday consumers benefit from advances in deep learning. It's called PhotoTime and,...
View ArticleExclusive: Pivotal CEO says open source Hadoop tech is coming
Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff from EMC and VMware that launched in 2013, is preparing to blow up its big data business by open sourcing a whole lot of it. Rumors…
View ArticleWhy VMware is going ‘space-age’ with Google and embracing OpenStack
VMware has developed a reputation in some circles as being proprietary and less innovative than it was when the company made server virtualization a household word in the IT space, and it's…
View ArticleIndustrial IoT startup Sight Machine raises $5M, expands to robots
Sight Machine, a startup trying to simplify the collection and analysis of industrial data, has raised a $5 million venture capital round from Mercury Fund, Michigan eLab, Huron River Ventures, Orfin…
View ArticleDARPA shows off its tech for indexing the deep web
On Sunday night, 60 Minutes aired a segment about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, and its attempts to secure the internet from hackers, human traffickers and other criminals....
View ArticleNow IBM is teaching Watson Japanese
IBM has struck a deal SoftBank Telecom Corporation to bring the IBM Watson artificial intelligence (or, as IBM calls it, cognitive computing) system to Japan. The was announced on Tuesday. Watson…
View ArticleInboxVudu uses NLP to help you focus on the emails that matter
A text-analysis startup called Parakweet (whose initial product focused on book recommendations) has launched a new application, called InboxVudu, that's designed to help users reduce the stress of...
View ArticleHitachi Data Systems to buy Pentaho for $500-$600M
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems is set to buy analytics company Pentaho at a price rumored to be between $500 million and $600 million (closer to $500 million, from what I've heard). It's…
View ArticleDatadog buys Mortar Data, will close its Hadoop cloud service
Datadog, a startup that monitors the performance of users' cloud computing servers, has acquired big data startup Mortar Data and intends to shutter the company's existing cloud service. Mortar...
View ArticleMeet Myriad, a new project for running Hadoop on Mesos
Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the…
View ArticleFacebook’s latest homemade hardware is a 128-port modular switch
Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called "Wedge." On Wednesday,…
View ArticleHere’s more evidence that sports is a goldmine for machine learning
If you really like sports and you're really skilled at data analysis or machine learning, you might want to make that your profession. On Thursday, private equity firm Vista announced it…
View ArticleThe rise of self-service analytics, in 3 charts
I'm trying really hard to write less about business intelligence and analytics software. We get it: Data is important to businesses, and the easier you can make it for people to analyze…
View ArticleMicrosoft says its new computer vision system can outperform humans
Microsoft researchers claim in a recently published paper that they have developed the first computer system capable of outperforming humans on a popular benchmark. While it's estimated that humans can...
View ArticleWhy deep learning is at least inspired by biology, if not the brain
As deep learning continues gathering steam among researchers, entrepreneurs and the press, there's a loud-and-getting-louder debate about whether its algorithms actually operate like the human brain...
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