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Will the real Elon Musk please stand up? Autonomous bots and synthesized speech in the public domain
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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 thing is very much real,…

Jul 24, 2017
Alibaba: Building a retail ecosystem on data science, machine learning, and cloud

Alibaba: Building a retail ecosystem on data science, machine learning, and cloud

Jul 6, 2017
NBA analytics: Going data pro

NBA analytics: Going data pro

Jun 26, 2017
Kafka: The story so far

Kafka: The story so far

Jun 20, 2017
Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

May 26, 2017

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A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake
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A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake

From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support,…

Apr 24, 2019
Graphs in the cloud. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: April 2019
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Graphs in the cloud. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: April 2019

The first sign of convergence in the graph space is here. Graph databases continue to…

Apr 15, 2019
Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
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Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL

Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence…

Apr 9, 2019
Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future
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Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future

Startup Run:AI exits stealth, promises a software layer to abstract over many AI chips It’s…

Apr 3, 2019
The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring
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The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring

How do you bring Hadoop to the AI, hybrid, and multi cloud era, making it…

Mar 25, 2019
Nvidia GPUs for data science, analytics, and distributed machine learning using Python with Dask
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Nvidia GPUs for data science, analytics, and distributed machine learning using Python with Dask

Nvidia wants to extend the success of the GPU beyond graphics and deep learning to…

Mar 22, 2019

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