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LinkedIn and Intel tech leaders on the state of AI
AI is on a roll. Adoption is increasing across the board, and organizations are already seeing tangible benefits. However, the…
Business
Apollo GraphQL announces $130 Million Series D Funding, wants to define its own category
GraphQL is a specification that came at just the right time to address an age-old…
Open-source growth and venture capital investment: Data, databases, challenges, and opportunities
Open-source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it’s often approached in…
More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess
Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It’s a…
The biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j
A $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j’s valuation to over $2 billion. A…
Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking…
Graphs as a foundational technology stack: Analytics, AI, and hardware
How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic — which also…
Technical
Rendered.ai unveils Platform as a Service for creating synthetic data to train AI models
As more organizations are turning to synthetic data to feed their data-hungry machine learning algorithms,…
Machine learning is going real-time: Here’s why and how
Organizations are turning to machine learning because of the return on investment. The ones doing…
API3, the first-party blockchain oracle, is releasing beacon data feeds with Amberdata
In theory, Web3 is all about decentralization. In practice, it can be very centralized. API3…
Taking the world by simulation: The rise of synthetic data in AI
Would you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real-world…
2022 technology trend review, part two: AI and graphs
AI and graphs have a few things in common: they are multi-faceted, ubiquitous in their…
Socio-Technical
Confluent shows open source, paradigm shifts, cloud, and commercial success can all co-exist
Confluent just became a unicorn. We discuss why, what happens from now on, and how…
Start the reskilling revolution without me: Future of Work trends and soft data on soft skills
As work is being redefined by automation as well as changing economy and social norms,…
Beyond experts: Jobs, tasks, and skills for a data driven Future of Work
Understanding and keeping track of the relationship between jobs, tasks and skills is essential for…
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
Is technology the answer to life, the universe and everything? A brief account of human…
Just another Cyber Monday: Amazing Amazon and the best deal ever
When you get something at 80% off on Amazon, who do you think wins — you or…
Artifictional Intelligence: is the Singularity or the Surrender the real threat to humanity?
Artificial intelligence is one of those things: overhyped and yet mystical, the realm of experts…
Use Cases
Going data-driven on a budget
How can you think and do data analysis globally, aiming to act and have an…
Who’s automating the enterprise? Meet Amelia and the future of work
Imagine all enterprise functions automated by software and performed through a single point of access,…
Alice, the making of: Behind the scenes with the new AI assistant from Yandex
Did you ever wonder what it’s like to build an AI personal assistant, or to…
Raiders of the storm: The data science behind weather prediction
What kind of data and techniques are used to model and predict weather and climate?…
Semantic data lake architecture in healthcare and beyond
Data lakes can be a great asset, but they need an array of elements to…
Supercharging your image: Machine learning for photography applications
Advanced capabilities for image retrieval and processing are relatively new and powered to a large…