Laptops by nature are a compromise. A desktop computer doesn’t have to worry about its weight, power consumption, size, or even its appearance (most go under desks after all). But a laptop has to be light, small, it can’t consume […]
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HPE’s plan to buy SimpliVity for $650M says as much about HPE as it does the market for software-defined infrastructure (SDN) solutions. There are solid financial reasons for the deal, as noted in HPE’s announcement; market research suggests sales of
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IBM’s OpenPOWER organization has clearly stepped up its game this week with a massive move towards making deep learning and AI efforts far more affordable. The latest announcement was to expand both its Open Source efforts to include TensorFlow—a Google-developed
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) inspires highly optimistic, often wildly incongruous predictions by tech vendors hoping to win big in the coming year. However, some companies build such a remarkable track record of market successes that when they talk, people
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While nobody will argue that Donald doesn’t know his way around a 140-character tweet, I think it’s fair to say cybersecurity experts and the US Intelligence Community know more about hacking than he does–by an order of magnitude or more.
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Most of the technology we use today seems to require a degree of trust between you and the company providing the service. When it comes to things like Siri, Cortana, or Amazon’s Alexa, things can get even trickier because in
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It being the first week of January, it’s time to dust off my most comfortable walking shoes, search the couch for spare change and head to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), along with 150,000+ other people. CES
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Panasonic’s booth at CES was a wonder to behold this year. It had a variety of things that imagined a future defined by robots, displays, projectors, drones and cameras that provided a glimpse into our near-term future. Part of what
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There’s a security revolution underway in the United States. In an attempt to reduce credit card fraud, retailers everywhere are transitioning from legacy magnetic strip cards to the more secure chip-and-PIN system. Under this new threat cyber criminals are picking
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In 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) clearly became more than a marketing-infused buzzword. Why so? Because major vendors focusing on AI, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Salesforce are making the investments necessary for creating AI platforms and working
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