Big Data

One of the hallmarks of existentialism is its particular emphasis on the concept of anguish, understood as the feeling we experience when we grasp our radical responsibility in defining who we are individually and as a species. If human beings have no predete…

Its not a wild notion for Facebook adoption to dramatically slow down over time. And while a certain board member may be hellbent on cheating death, our own mortality is even more inevitable than Facebooks decline. Researchers are now looking at the intersect…

Image credit: Huawei Huawei unveiled a new chip, called Kunpeng 920, aimed at the data center market. The chip is expected to help reduce Chinas reliance on exports of chips from American companies amidst the ongoing trade dispute between China and the Unite…

But just like with Facebook or Airbnb, people who click around enough can find friends, neighbors and co-workers. I already have. I looked up a neighbor and discovered that the person is a party member. I learned that two co-workers are not in any party. …

8 Top Big Data Analytics Tools

Happy Friday, readers. By this point, you might have been reminded just how long the week can be in the wrong job. If you like the idea of being a Google Data Engineer or even a Cloud Architect instead, todays deal might interest you. The Google Cloud Platfo…

Walmart this morning unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including A.I.-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a working concept called the Intelligent Retail Lab — or “IRL” for short — operates out o…

Digital innovations and advances in AI have produced a range of novel talent identification and assessment tools. Many of these technologies promise to help organizations improve their ability to find the right person for the right job, and screen out the wro…

Sight Machine, which helps manufacturers analyze big data, raises $29.4M Series C led by LS Group (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Teaching big data to future scientists means having them think creatively about ways to harness the terabytes of information available to them. To that end, systems biologist Trey Ideker used his UC San Diego School of Medicine's Biological Networks and Biome…