Big Data

REUTERS/2018 The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, the UKs antitrust watchdog, has begun an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy. The deal is valued at around $400 million, and under scrutiny for possibly reducing competition in the United Kingdom. Facebook is already facing antitrust concerns, and criticism for Mark…

With AI models rendered useless by the pandemic, CIOs and data jocks are scurrying to make sense of a changed world. chombosan / Getty Images How do you model a world turned upside down? That’s the existential challenge thrust upon those in business intelligence and data science, two intertwined spheres…

Using an artificial intelligence and big data-driven approach, a team of planetary researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and ETH Zurich has analyzed an archive of more than 2 million high-resolution images and created the global map of 136,610 lunar rockfall events. Heat maps of lunar…

When you think of the single program that seems to absolutely epitomize business in all its forms, you probably think of Microsoft Excel. It’s been around for three decades, it’s the cornerstone of the ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite and that neat, ordered grid of a spreadsheet is synonymous with 21st-century…

You’d think the biggest complaint that can be leveled about a pair of earbuds is that they just don’t sound all that great. Granted, there are plenty of cut-rate headphones that fall under that category, but we’d wager the pet peeve that makes most users throw away earbuds in frustration…

Cole Carini, a 23-year-old Virginia man who turned up at hospital missing his hands and peppered with shrapnel, claims he was hurt in a lawnmower accident. the FBI, however, says he's a misogynist who fantasized about blowing up hot cheerleaders and was trying to assemble a bomb. On June 2,…

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Updated / Wednesday, 3 Jun 2020 17:19 The DNM acquisition will bring to 1,000 the size of the tech consulting team at Deloitte in Dublin Deloitte Ireland has acquired cloud services business DNM. Dublin-based DNM works with clients across Europe and North America. As well as offering cloud-based products, it…

Book Description Use this guide to one of SQL Server 2019's most impactful features - Big Data Clusters. You will learn about data virtualization and data lakes for this complete artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform within the SQL Server database engine. You will know how to use…

hit the pace car — “Every floppy matters”: Archivists needed every single byte to build working ROM. Sam Machkovech - Jun 1, 2020 4:00 pm UTC In one of the most unreal data-recovery projects we've ever heard of, a seemingly lost NES game has been unearthed—as archived on a single…