Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a $100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs in a deal that APT describes as the largest investment in predictive analytics to date. Further reading How ...
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Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
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Google's recent update of its Gmail app made archive the default setting, encouraging its users to save their email, literally, forever. This may mean a doctor's message about a medical condition, a love note, or a conversation about an ...
China has produced a supercomputer capable of running at 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system in the forthcoming Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The new system -- called Tianhe-2, ...
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Demand for SAS-based higher education courses is so high that only a small percentage of prospective students who apply for qualifications in the subject at university actually get a place at an institution, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has told ...
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Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina. The researchers ...
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Just six per cent of those training for a career in cyber security are female, according to figures published by QA, the UK's largest IT training company. The proportion of women working in Britain's IT and telecommunications industry ...
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China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details. China's latest system was built with ...
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In partnership with the non-profit organization FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology, Teradata has granted college scholarships to 10 students on Teradata-sponsored FIRST Robotics teams. FIRST is the foundation ...
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Sony and Lego are working together on creating a new generation of products that bridge the gap between toys and video games. A joint research project between Sony and Lego aims to come up with future projects that are part toy, part ...
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With the H-1B fight over and lost, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out, almost flailing in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote Tuesday. The tech industry had won. It was getting late in the day and the ...
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Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies." The nonprofit organization is, however, not softening its stand on protecting ...
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Track forward a decade. Terror has defeated privacy concerns as every CCTV camera in the land, now filming in crytal-clear high definition, is linked to law enforcement and powerful data sifting systems. Sensor technology like that found ...
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As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10. In Utah this week, ...
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Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard. Flynn resigned effective immediately "to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," according to a news ...
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