New MIT tech could help robots and humans work together
There’s no shortage of warnings about robots taking over our jobs, but often overlooked is the potential for how robots…
IBM dangles $5M prize for major breakthroughs using Watson
IBM has been encouraging developers to build apps using its Watson artificial intelligence system, which it hopes will be a…
Superman memory crystals could store data for billions of years
Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered a way to store data in five dimensions on nanostructure glass that can…
Google's adjustable cloud infrastructure services leave beta
Google announced the general availability of Custom Machine Types for its Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service offering, giving developers a chance to…
Big data gets a new open-source project: Apache Arrow
Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there’s yet…
IDG Contributor Network: Security standards — sorting through the alphabet soup
Early in my career, I worked as a systems programmer for IBM in South Florida. As everyone no doubt knows,…
Couchbase 4.0 review: The Swiss Army knife of NoSQL
Couchbase Server, similar to MongoDB and RethinkDB, is a document-oriented distributed database, but that description sells it a good deal…
IDG Contributor Network: Why the Department of Defense just started deploying Windows 10
Starting this month, the U.S. Department of Defense will start deploying Windows 10 to about 4M devices within the next…
Defense Department to put Windows 10 on 4M computers
The U.S. Department of Defense will standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft’s latest operating…
IDG Contributor Network: Avoiding indecipherable M.D. scrawl: Nuance delivers a health-specific speech-to-text offering
I once had a colleague who wasn’t efficient typing emails and documents and hence resorted to using Dragon’s speech recognition…