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Off-chain reporting: Toward a new general purpose secure compute framework by Chainlink
The upgrade in Chainlink’s oracle service could mean more data availability at lower cost, leading to more applications A deep…
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Business
Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL
Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not.…
IOTA still wants to build a better blockchain and get it right this time
In 2014, IOTA set out to offer an alternative to the key issues with blockchain:…
OctoML scores $28M to go to market with open source Apache TVM, a de facto standard for MLOps
The open source Apache TVM project is becoming a de facto standard in MLOps, and…
Cutting-edge Katana Graph scores $28.5 million Series A Led by Intel Capital
Here’s why and how a startup founded by a duo of researchers some months back…
Up and to the right: TigerGraph scores $105M Series C funding, the Graph market is growing
The largest funding round to date in the graph market is good news not just…
Pinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding
Machine learning applications understand the world through vectors. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors,…
Technical
Another cloud native SQL database unicorn: Yugabyte raises $188M Series C funding at $1.3B valuation
A number of successive funding rounds have given Yugabyte unicorn status while positioning the company…
Cloud, microservices, and data mess? Graph, ontology, and application fabric to the rescue.
Knowledge graphs are probably the best technology we have for data integration. But what about…
The State of AI in 2021: Language models, healthcare, ethics, and AI agnosticism
Takeaways from an action-packed 2021 for AI: Healthcare is just getting started with its AI…
IOTA is bringing smart contracts with zero fees, Ethereum interoperability, and compatibility for next-gen distributed apps
IOTA is unveiling its smart contracts, with a clear onboarding path and many interesting features…
DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all
DeepMind wants to enable neural networks to emulate algorithms to get the best of both…
Socio-Technical
The Reskilling Revolution: Taking control of skills with Open Badges
In a rapidly shifting job market, being able to formalize skills is a requirement for…
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,…
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Keep on Uberin the free world
Uber is still operating in London, in you case you did not notice. Uber will…
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…
NBA analytics: Going data pro
For the NBA, like every other sports league, awards are important. They can generate attention,…
Use Cases
Big Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance
Could financial fraud such as the Laundromat be avoided by applying machine learning to scan…
Disrupting insurance: data-driven customer value
Why hasn’t the insurance business been disrupted yet, and how could data be used to…
Googling prescriptive analytics: YouTube recommendations and the analytics continuum
Understanding prescriptive analytics is complicated, let alone implementation. Would turning to Google help? Seeing how…