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DeepMind aims to marry deep learning and classic algorithms
Will deep learning really live up to its promise? We don’t actually know. But if it’s going to, it will…
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
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…
2022 technology trend review, part one: Open source, cloud, blockchain
Open source is here to stay, the cloud is catalyzing its growth, and the blockchain…
Socio-Technical
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…
Data-driven disaster relief: Measuring the impact of emergency response
With natural disasters picking up in frequency and intensity, the role of NGOs in disaster…
NBA analytics and RDF graphs: Game, data, and metadata evolution, and Occam’s razor
Three-point shooting, Steph Curry, and coming up with stories. If you feel like doing your…
GDPR in real life: Transparency, innovation, and adoption across borders and organizations
Part two: Auditing data on premise and in the cloud, spurring innovation in machine learning…
Use Cases
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…
Will the real Elon Musk please stand up? Autonomous bots and synthesized speech in the public domain
The ability to create virtual clones that appear to think and talk like the real…
How machine learning is taking on online retail fraud
Fraud is one of the biggest causes of lost revenue for online retailers. Fraugster and…