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Data governance and context for evidence-based medicine: Transparency and bias in COVID-19 times
In the early 90s, evidence-based medicine emerged to make medicine more data-driven. Three decades later, we have more data, but…
Business
Make Apache Cassandra great again: DataStax going cloud, Kubernetes, open source, and multi-model
Actions and words, code and advocacy. DataStax is changing strategy, re-engaging with the Apache Cassandra…
Machine learning vs payment fraud: Transparency and humans in the loop to minimize customer insults
What are customer insults, and what does machine learning have to do with it? False…
Universal Code Search gets a boost: Sourcegraph secures $23 million Series B Round funding
Sourcegraph wants to be the Google of code, even though code search is harder than…
Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated
What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors — specifically, Amazon…
5 technology trends for the roaring 20s, part 2: AI, Knowledge Graphs, infinity and beyond
You don’t have to be a fortune teller to identify AI as the key trend…
Semantics and virtualization, data integration and data governance on the way to the cloud
It’s official – data analytics is swiftly moving to the cloud. AtScale is facilitating this,…
Technical
Open source AI stack is ready for its moment
Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working…
Chainlink 2.0 brings off-chain compute to blockchain oracles, promotes adoption of hybrid smart contracts
A new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for…
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.…
Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future
GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it’s increasingly being used…
Data, analytics, machine learning, and AI in healthcare in 2021
What do you get when you juxtapose two of the hottest domains today – AI…
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:…
Socio-Technical
Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012
Distributed, Collaborative Decision Making? Music to my ears – we should be doing more of that…