Articles by Focus
Featured
2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect
AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological progress and adoption Last year,…
.webp "2021 technology trend review, part one: Blockchain, cloud, open source")
Business
2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect
AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological…
Trailblaizing end-to-end AI application development for the edge: Blaize releases AI Studio
You might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip…
Fluree, the graph database with blockchain inside, goes open source
A hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and…
The state of AI in 2020: Biology and healthcare’s AI moment, ethics, predictions, and graph neural networks
Research and industry breakthroughs, ethics, and predictions. This is what AI looks like today, and…
The state of AI in 2020: Democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence
From fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI…
Hybrid AI through data, space, time, and industrial applications: Beyond Limits scores $113M Series C to scale up
Machine learning approaches to AI alone don’t cut it. Good old-fashioned AI alone does not…
Technical
Open source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction
Appwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to…
Machine learning at the edge: A hardware and software ecosystem
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge bears the promise of unlocking…
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…
The state of MLOps in 2021
MLOps is the art and science of bringing machine learning to production, and it means…
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…
Amazon Neptune update: Machine learning, data science, and the future of graph databases
Amazon Neptune just added another query language, openCypher, to its arsenal. That may not sound…
Socio-Technical
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,…
Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale
The problem with advertising data and what to do about it. Plus, the future of…
DataOps: Changing the world one organization at a time
Uncertain about the benefits of going data-driven? Not sure how to get there? Here’s some…
Planet analytics: big data, sustainability, and environmental impact
What is the relation between big data applications and sustainability? What is the net effect…
Please wait while your future trickles down: innovation, asymmetry and evolution
If you believe the technologists, the future is around the corner and it’s going to…