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Rangers Redux: Can Texas Repeat with Data, Analytics, and AI?

Hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Every team starts with a perfect record and dreams of winning the World Series in six months. For the Texas Rangers, defending their championship will require the proper mix of hard w Read more…

Will Gen AI Help the Texas Rangers Win the World Series in ’23?

The Texas Rangers are one of six MLB teams that hasn’t won a World Series. If they win it all this year--and they are currently leading a surprisingly competitive AL West at the season’s midway point with one of the Read more…

Inside the Modern Data Stack

If you’ve heard about something called “the modern data stack,” then you’re not alone. Google returns 489 million results for that search, if that’s a measure of anything anymore. While the modern data stack do Read more…

March Madness Brings Out the Analytics

The luck of the Irish is projected to be strong today, which is St. Patrick’s Day. But luck can only carry you so far in the NCAA Tournament, the first round of which also begins today. To float among the basketball go Read more…

College Teams Closely Watching How Pro Teams Adopt Analytics

Professional sports teams have been taking advantage of an array of analytics and AI techniques for some time. Now that the technology and applications are becoming more well understood, college athletics are starting 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…

Airbus is Teaching Planes to Land Themselves

Most people are familiar with autopilot, the system that controls an airplane’s speed, altitude, and heading under the watch of trained pilots. For the most part, pilots are still in charge of takeoffs and landings, bu Read more…

Big Data Career Notes: July 2022 Edition

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…

NFL, AWS Launch New Competition to Track Helmet Impacts in Football

In 2017, researchers from Boston University studied the donated brains of 111 National Football League (NFL) players. All but one showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease assoc Read more…

Scale AI Gets A $325M Series E Funding Infusion to Grow Its Data Annotation Mission

Data annotation and labeling startup Scale AI is taking in another $325 million in new investment, this time through a Series E round. The San Francisco-based company, which was founded in 2016, works to help enterpri Read more…

This Just In

Neo4j Empowers Syracuse University with $250K Grant to Tackle Misinformation in 2024 Elections

May 8, 2024 |

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…

Oracle Code Assist Can Help Developers Build Applications Faster with AI

May 7, 2024 |

AUSTIN, Texas, May 7, 2024 — Oracle today announced plans for Oracle Code Assist, an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency. Read more…

UCSD Researchers Develop New Framework to Curb Undesirable AI Outputs

May 6, 2024 |

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…

Satellogic Releases Open Dataset for AI Model Training

May 2, 2024 |

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…

Google Announces $75M AI Opportunity Fund and New Course to Skill One Million Americans

Apr 26, 2024 |

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 26, 2024 — Google today announced two new AI workforce development initiatives that build on its commitment to help all workers and learners realize the economic benefits of new technology. Read more…

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