To boost its in-house, machine-learning efforts, Twitter has acquired Whetlab, a startup that makes it easier for companies to use machine-learning tools. As part of the acquisition, announced Wednesday, Twitter will shut down Whetlab’s beta service on July 15, and will no longer accept sign-ups for the product. Current users …
Microsoft today shuffled its executive ranks, giving Windows chief Terry Myerson more responsibilities and casting out former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. The Redmond, Wash. firm also pared the number of major engineering divisions from four to three. CEO Satya Nadella broke the news Wednesday, with Microsoft issuing both a statement …
Cisco plans to invest $10 billion in China, although its sales in the country are slumping due in part to persistent security concerns surrounding U.S. technology. The investment marks a “new chapter” for the company and includes agreements with the Chinese government to expand in areas including research and job …
The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine AT&T $100 million for misleading customers by throttling speeds on the lines of millions of customers who had “unlimited” data plans. The FCC alleges that AT&T did not adequately disclose to its customers on “unlimited” data plans that their speed would slow drastically …
Many organizations are in the early stages of looking at the Internet of Things and trying to figure out how it might help them improve their businesses. Further, they wonder if the upcoming avalanche of wearables, smartwatches, 3D heads-up displays, etc., will trigger a massive BYOD thrust they are ill …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a mutual fund adviser, its principal, and three mutual fund board members with failing to satisfy their statutory obligations in connection with the evaluation and approval of mutual fund advisory contracts. Richmond, Va.-based advisory firm Commonwealth Capital Management was charged with violating Section …
Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Sckipio Technologies are debuting modem technology that will help make speeds of hundreds of megabit per second over copper cables a reality. The technology that makes it possible is called g.Fast. Step by step, chipmakers and equipment manufacturers are getting it ready for large-scale commercial services that …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an enforcement action against a company that illegally offered complex derivatives products to retail investors. The Dodd-Frank Act implemented two key requirements for any security-based swaps offering to a retail investor who doesn’t meet the high standard of an “eligible contract participant” defined …
As a result of massive data breaches experienced by major corporations in every industry, data security is the talk of the tech world. It has also become a board-level topic. As these highly-publicized data breaches show, security – or the lack of it – can have enormous economic and brand/reputation …
Amazon Web Services’ EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so without building their own infrastructure. Apache Spark is an open-source distributed processing engine used for big data workloads. It’s a …
Исполнительный директор Samsung, господин JK Shin сообщал, что следующий планшетофон южнокорейского гиганта, Galaxy Note 5, будет показан только в Сентябре, а сейчас стало известно из последнего отчета, что аппарат представят в Августе, перед мероприятием IFA 2015 и презентацией следующего поколения “яблочных” мобильников iPhone 6S и iPhone 6S Plus. Презентация смартфона Galaxy Note …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Massachusetts-based investment advisory firm and its owner for funneling more than $17 million in client assets into four financially troubled Canadian penny stock companies in which the owner has undisclosed business and financial interests. The SEC alleges that clients …
Professor Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics in 1957 with his publication of Syntactic Structures, and his Chomsky hierarchy from the previous year remains a foundation stone in computer science for programming languages. But programming languages are a far cry from speaking A.I., and Chomsky’s unprecedented success in that part of linguistics should bear the blame for holding back …
In the past few years, we have witnessed many incidents surrounding race and racial divide in the nation. Everyday there are stories related to racial tension on most major news channels. My journey to becoming a chief information officer in higher education technology has also seen its share of challenges …
There’s a reason ggplot2 is one of the most popular add-on packages for R: It’s a powerful, flexible and well-thought-out platform to create data visualizations you can customize to your heart’s content. But it also can be a bit overwhelming. While I find the logic of plot layers to be …
Whether or not you remember that theme(plot.title = element_text(face = “bold”)) is to make a graph headline bold or ggplot(mydataframe, aes(x=myxcolname, y=myycolname, fill=mygroupcolname)) + geom_bar(stat=”identity”, position=”dodge”) is for a grouped bar chart, dataviz with ggplot2 can involve a lot of typing. That’s why I’ve got two words for you: Code …
Samsung Galaxy S6, S5, S4 and S4 Mini phones have a massive flaw that allows an attacker to take over the device. It’s in the keyboard code, of all places, thanks to a custom SwiftKey build. There are about 600 million of these things in circulation, it’s thought. The bug …
Amazon on Wednesday will call on Congress to embrace automated drone flights and come up with a set of simple, nationwide regulations that will allow its proposed Prime Air service to get off the ground. The company is one of several that is lobbying U.S. lawmakers hard to accept looser …
Независимый специалист Ларри Зельцер (Larry Seltzer) считает, что использование VPN-сетей подвергает пользователя риску. Об этом он сообщил ресурсу arstechnica.com. …
Are you a geek? If you are, this won’t come as a news flash for you: You and the users you work with on the business side are pretty much nothing alike — not in the way you communicate, not in the way you value various traits and not in …
Flashback to the mid-1990s, when modems are still in wide use for PCs and this pilot fish is a sysadmin at a local college. “The college had a digital phone system that was not compatible with computer modems,” says fish. “To be able to test computers at my work station, …
Legend has it that way back when the PC dinosaurs still walked the Earth, returning company co-founder Steve Jobs sought a mantra to show Apple was back in business, and the acclaimed ‘Think Different’ campaign was born. Apple Think Different with Muhammed Ali. Sketch different You could argue the huge …
Помимо защиты от воды и пыли по стандарту стандарту IP68 ещё одним кардинальным отличием Samsung Galaxy S6 Active от оригинального Galaxy S6 стал аккумулятор гораздо большей ёмкости – 3 500 против 2 550 мАч. …
На игровой конференции Е3 компания AMD представила новые графические ускорители. Модели серий Radeon R9 Fury X, R9 Fury и R9 Nano нацелены на энтузиастов и построены на графических чипах Fiji, будучи более дорогостоящими и производительными, нежели представленные в этот же день карты серии Radeon 300. Все устройства базируется на новой памяти HBM (high-bandwidth memory), …
Хоть потоковая трансляция музыки и является мейнстримом, о революции в деле распространения музыки говорить пока не приходится. Она произойдет, когда крупные бренды окончательно сменят курс, отказавшись от заработка на «устаревших» форматах. То есть, в теории, довольно скоро. …
В ОАЭ представили новинку для туристов и местных жителей — «смарт-пальмы», способные обеспечивать людей беспроводным интернет-доступом и подзаряжать гаджеты от энергии солнца. …