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Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data
“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…
AI Bias In the Spotlight On International Women’s Day
What impact does AI bias have on women and girls? What can people do to increase female participation in the AI field? These are some of the questions the tech world is grappling with today in honor of International Wome Read more…
DuckDB Walks to the Beat of Its Own Analytics Drum
One of the most popular new databases at the moment is DuckDB. With millions of downloads per month and two startups created around it, the open source column store has achieved feathery heights usually reserved for bigg Read more…
Top 10 Challenges to GenAI Success
So you want to implement generative AI? That’s great news! You can count yourself among the majority of IT decision makers who have also seen the potential of this transformative tech. While GenAI has the potential to Read more…
News In Brief
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
Hyperion To Provide a Peek at Storage, File System Usage with Global Site Survey
Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market analysis that Hyperion Research is planning on rolling out over Read more…
Master’s of Data Science Programs Go Online
Data science skills are in high demand, as organizations continue to ask more from their data. That’s leading universities to get creative in how they structure their post-graduate data science programs. One way the Read more…
Graduates Land Top Financial Tech Jobs Through a Unique Program at the University of Delaware
The rise of ChatGPT and other GenAI platforms has caused a major disruption in the education sector. While GenAI technology offers incredible promise for research and development, there are some concerns about the use of Read more…
Biden’s Executive Order on AI and Data Privacy Gets Mostly Favorable Reactions
As expected, President Joe Biden today issued an executive order on the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and the protection of sensitive data. Technology leaders reacted in a mostly favorable manner to the order, Read more…
This Just In
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 8, 2024 — Neo4j has announced a $250,000 research grant and licensed use of its software to Syracuse University’s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship (IDJC). Read more…
May 6, 2024 — Fake robocalls during elections. The voice of a public figure appropriated to hawk products. Pictures altered to mislead the public. From social media posts to celebrity voices, the trustworthiness of AI-generated content is under fire. Read more…
NEW YORK, May 2, 2024 — Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (“EO”) data collection, today announced the release of a large open dataset of high-resolution imagery, curated from the company’s archive, to support the training of foundation models. Read more…
MILL VALLEY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30, 2024 — Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced the most significant results of their partnership to date: Read more…
April 29, 2024 — Amid the challenges that the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility faced in assembling and launching the world’s first exascale-class (more than a quintillion calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier, one key component was hitch-free. Read more…