Category: AI
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Amazon disrupts again
Amazon is now testing a store in Seattle where customers can walk in, take food off of the shelves and leave, without the hassle of having to wait in line. This new service is called AmazonGo, and it uses Amazon’s “Just Walk Out Technology”. Is this the result from Lean, checkout waste removal? Or Design…
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Blockchain could solve Data Integrity problems
https://imgur.com/gallery/rEbC1/new Blockchain could solve Data Integrity problems /A Martijn Veldkamp /A September 7, 2016 As the world relies more heavily on data as the basis for critical decision-making, it is vital that this data can be trusted. And that trust is the key issue here. People (Data Scientists, Chief Innovation Officers) are looking for ways…
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All this availability of data connection makes me feel nostalgic
When I first started my journey online I was still on dial-up. Once every while, I listened to the whirly noises the little grey box on my computer made as it performed a ‘handshake’ with another modem somewhere. Like magic, I was online and I used those few expensive minutes to connect to a BBS,…
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“Who’s on First?”
"Who’s on First?" The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The…
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New platform lets people make money leaking confidential files
A team of cryptographers and developers want to create a website where anyone can sell data sets to the highest bidder. "You’ll hate it," is the slogan of the…
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Cloud reliabilty
Reliability is often attributed as one of the reasons some organizations are wary of the cloud. Last week, Amazon, Rackspace and IBM had to “reboot” their clouds to deal with maintenance issues with the Xen hypervisor. Details were scarce but it was pretty quickly established that an unspecified vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor was the…
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The Cloud has landed! It’s become Foggy
We’re about to go back once again in the circle to decentralize and give a greater role to local storage and computing power. It depends on the nature and the amount of data that needs to be store and it’s process demands. With the rise of the amount of data because of the ‘Internet of…