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AI and automation vs. the COVID-19 pandemic: Trading liberty for safety
Reports on the use of AI to respond to COVID-19 may have been greatly exaggerated. But does the rush to…
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
AI chip startup NeuReality introduces its NR1-P object-oriented hardware architecture
NeuReality targets deep learning inference workloads on the edge, aiming to reduce CAPEX and OPEX…
Graph-based data science, machine learning and AI. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 23, Spring 2021
What does graph have to do with machine learning, and data science? A lot, actually,…
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…
Socio-Technical
World Wide Web Conference 2012: From technical to socio-technical
Extending the reach and scope of the Web I just returned from this year’s edition…
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…