Telepathic human-AI communication breakthrough by MindPortal
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 by Austin Harris
A team of academics and scientists announced a huge breakthrough in seamless telepathic communication. For the first time, artificial intelligence has been successfully used to decode continuous imagined speech from the brain - opening new horizons in human-AI communication in the form of an AI model called MindSpeech.
In a groundbreaking trial run by startup Mi...
OpenShift virtualization enhancements released from Red Hat
Friday, August 16, 2024 by Austin Harris
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, recently introduced new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, as well as the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service. The new features, delivered with the general availability of Red Ha...
AI inference platform Groq lands 640M in funding
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 by Richard Harris
Groq, a leader in fast AI inference, has secured a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B. The round was led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Private Equity Partners with participation from both existing and new investors including Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, and strategic investors including Cisco Investments, Global Brain’s KDDI Open Inn...
Hyperspectral imaging improves machine vision
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 by Richard Harris
Machine vision is increasingly important for many applications, such as object classification. However, relying on conventional RGB imaging is sometimes insufficient, the input images are just too similar, regardless of algorithmic sophistication.
Hyperspectral imaging adds the extra dimension of wavelength to conventional images, providing a much richer data se...
StorONE launches backup storage
Friday, November 19, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The latest ransomware variants perform what is known as sleeper attacks, which avoid discovery by slowly infecting data. By the time an organization realizes it is dealing with a ransomware attack, a high percentage of data is encrypted. Modern backup storage needs to not only provide immutability of backup data it must do so, without impacting performance for pote...
Introducing Density Open Area
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
In 2017, we had a customer tell us she spent $700,000 every year for each building in a 4 million square foot office portfolio. $700,000 bought her human consultants who would visit her offices and do 7-day observational studies of how busy different spaces were (once per quarter).
As it turns out, she was not alone. Over the years, hundreds of customers have asked i...
CircleCI hits 1 millionth user
Thursday, September 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI celebrates nine years and the addition of their 1 millionth user to the platform.
“When CircleCI started, CI/CD was a kind of niche, bleeding-edge practice. Now, we’re seeing the market accelerate like never before as companies prioritize automation and continuous delivery systems,” said Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO. “No matter what market ...
Density raises $51M from Kleiner Perkins to reopen buildings safely
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Density announced it has successfully closed $51 million in Series C funding. The new funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins and includes 01 Advisors, Upfront Ventures, Founders Fund, Ludlow Ventures, Launch, DTA with participation from Alex Rodriguez, LPC Ventures, Julia and Kevin Hartz, Cyan and Scott Banister, and others. Kleiner Perkins Partner, Ilya Fushman,...
Making hardware easy for software developers
Monday, February 17, 2020 by Richard Harris
Emerging developments in everything from 5G and autonomous cars to the latest in scientific research are requiring hardware that can reliably, rapidly and efficiently perform unique tasks and can be adapted to meet changing standards and specifications.
In this article, Ramine Roane, vice president of AI and software at Xilinx, discusses how new and existing adaptabl...
Edge computing solution for industrial mobile devices arrives
Friday, March 29, 2019 by Richard Harris
FogHorn released Lightning Mobile, an edge computing solution built specifically for industrial mobile devices.
According to GSMA Intelligence, Industrial IoT connections will overtake consumer IoT connections in 2023, increasing more than five-fold to 13.8 billion in 2025. This is driven by a number of factors, including the emergence of LTE-M, NB-IoT, and...
Mesosphere DC OS 1.12 is now available
Thursday, November 1, 2018 by Austin Harris
Mesosphere announced the general availability of Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12 and the public beta of Mesosphere Jupyter Service (MJS). Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine is the only software platform that delivers pure Kubernetes-as-a-Service on multi-cloud and edge with high-density resource pooling, yet without the need for virtualization. DC/OS...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: multicloud, and containers and AI, oh my!
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, recently introduced the new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, optimized for security, multi-cloud, containers and AI. Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) runs on public clouds, VMware, OpenStack, and bare metal and delivers the latest upstream version, currently Kubernetes 1.10. After the initial three-step guided deployment, the distribut...
Mobile ad standards and their impact on advertising
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
Publishers that have a genuine respect for the experience of their readers have long avoided disruptive ad experiences such as pop-ups and flashing ads. This new initiative is attempting to change the approach of those publishers that continue to display disruptive ads which negatively impact the reader experience while generating ill-will toward online ads in general.G...
Target Freight Management wins technology patent for FIDA
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 by Austin Harris
Pittsburgh entrepreneur Mike Wagner is best known for his high-growth company which specializes in optimizing carrier pricing in real-time. Now, Wagner’s Target Freight Management has introduced a new technology to an industry with the announcement of their patent for Freight Innovation Density Analytics - or FIDA.“Nothing in the market today can analyze all the variabl...
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise announced
Monday, February 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
CloudBees, Inc. announced the availability of CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise to help enterprises accelerate software delivery and meet the rapidly growing volume of software development. Every company in every industry is dependent on software to support strategic initiatives and competitive differentiation. To support this business imperative, IT departments are ado...
Extreme Networks to be Super Bowl LI's wifi analytics provider
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 by Austin Harris
Extreme Networks, Inc. announced an agreement with the National Football League (NFL) to become the Official Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Analytics provider of Super Bowl LI. This announcement follows wired and wireless deployment at Super Bowl LI Stadium in Houston, Texas and marks the first time that Extreme has implemented its wired and wireless solution at a stadium hosting the ...
Cambium Networks jailbreaks first wireless broadband network
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Austin Harris
Cambium Networks has announced ePMP Elevate, a software solution allowing outdoor wireless broadband networks to gain the signature capabilities of Cambium Networks’ ePMP platform, including frequency reuse enabled by GPS Synchronization and Smart Beamforming, even on non-Cambium Networks 802.11n-based hardware. As it becomes increasingly important for wireless ne...
Energy Storage Innovations Conference in search for the holy grail of batteries
Friday, October 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
The future of the energy, mobility, electronics, and communications industry will be strongly shaped by the development of one key enabling technology, that is, energy storage. At the historical tipping point of structural change in these sectors there has never been a better time for a dedicated forum on energy storage as key enabling technology. The IDTechEx Show...
Hazelcast Releases Updates to Its Open Source InMemory Computing Platform
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast has released the latest version of its Hazelcast open source in-memory data grid which the company says is 30% faster than previous versions and is the first fully modularized version of Hazelcast. The Hazelcast operational in-memory computing platform helps companies manage their data and distribute processing using in-memory storage and parallel execution fo...
CloudFabrix Launches New AppDimensions Application Analytics and Intelligence Platform
Saturday, July 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
CloudFabrix has announced its AppDimensions application analytics and intelligence platform is now generally available. The PaaS solution provides cross-layer and cross-domain application operations analytics irrespective of underlying technology stacks.AppDimensions offers predictive analytics and optimizations by leveraging iterative data explorations and machine lear...
Michele Casey of Oracle Chats About Oracle Linux
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Michele Casey, Oracle Linux Senior director of Product Management, reached out to provide insight into Oracle Linux and the platform’s place in the evolution of containers for next-generation application development.ADM: To set the stage, what are some notable container use cases where people are pursuing Oracle Linux as a solution?Casey: Oracle Linux supports abroad po...
Opening Things Up IoT and the Open Source Community
Friday, May 6, 2016 by Jeff Osier-Mixon
Devices built with support of the IoT industry’s growing open source community makes a more efficient, universally connected world all the more plausible. At the current rate, more than 20 billion devices will be connected by 2020, and all of them have a few things in common. Successful IoT projects are developed with the three goals in mind: connectivity, security...
EdgeConneX Offers AWS Direct Connect for Portland Edge Data Center
Monday, May 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
EdgeConneX has announced the availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect in its Portland Edge Data Center. With AWS Direct Connect, companies in the Pacific Northwest can connect their IT infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services, establishing a private connection to the cloud. The announcement marks the first metro offering for AWS Direct Connect in P...
Vector Software Releases New Testing Solution for Legacy Applications
Monday, February 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Vector Software has released two new solutions that help companies facilitate software testing process improvement and test services to capture the behavior of legacy code bases through the company’s Health Check and Baseline Testing services. Vector’s Health Check engagement reviews the current state of an organization’s testing infrastructure and gathers key metr...
Hazelcast 3.6 Provides Open Source Support for InMemory Computing
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast, a provider of in-memory data grids and large-scale enterprise caching, has released Hazelcast 3.6 - an operational in-memory computing solution - which offers a platform for serving mobile devices with server-side applications.Among the updates to Hazelcast 3.6 are new cloud management and container deployment options to set-up, configure and manage cloud or ...
WaveMaker Offers New Hybrid Functionality to its RAD Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
WaveMaker has released the latest version of its Rapid App Development platform which offers responsive front-end development of applications for the web or mobile browser. The company’s new RAD Hybrid Mobile App Development platform adds new hybrid mobile app development capabilities that can leverage device capabilities such as camera, geo-location, network, local fil...
New Payara Scales with JCache Offers Java Caching Solution
Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast and Payara have partnered to offer Payara Scales with JCache, a Hazelcast Enterprise add-on which provides Payara Support users with an open source Java caching solution which results in performance, resilience and scalability for large-scale e-commerce and Java EE application deployments. Payara Scales with JCache helps applications achieve predictable l...
Synopsy Expands IP Portfolio for IoT Development
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Synopsys’ new IoT IP portfolio offers services that are optimized to address the security, wireless connectivity, energy-efficient and sensor processing requirements for a wide range of Internet of Things applications such as wearables, smart appliances, metering and wireless sensor networks. The DesignWare IP portfolio for the IoT includes power- and area-efficien...
deltaDNA Releases New SmartAds Mobile Game Ad Monetization Platform
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
deltaDNA has released the new SmartAds gaming ad management product which combines player targeting with dynamic ad mediation. The new platform combines in-app purchases (IAP), analytics and ad-serving with data derived from player experiences. It provides the ability to customize a player’s monetization experience by segmenting them into either ad responsive or IA...
Dynamsoft Releases New Barcode Reader SDK
Sunday, June 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Dynamsoft has released the latest version of its Barcode Reader software development kit (SDK) to add support for decoding barcodes from GIF images in addition to already having support for BMP, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images. Dynamsoft's Barcode Reader SDK allows developers to embed barcode decoding functionality in their web or desktop applications.The company has also opt...
BlisMedia Adds Altitude to Mobile Advertising Data
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
To provide more targeted mobile advertising options, BlisMedia is in the process of adding height (more precisely - altitude) to the data it tracks for identifying anonymous consumer location behavior. BlisMedia uses location and demographic data to define digital audiences for advertisers on its platform.The company is developing an SDK for app publishers providing the...
Synopsys Releases embARC Open Software Platform for ARC Based IoT and Other Embedded Applications
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Synopsys has released the embARC Open Software Platform to help accelerate the development of DesignWare ARC processor-based embedded systems. The new embARC platform gives ARC software developers online access to a suite of free and open-source software that eases the development of code for the IoT and other embedded applications. Device drivers, operating system...
Why Just Monitoring Your Server Is Not Enough
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Trevor Parsons
Server monitoring tools have traditionally been one of the first building blocks in any IT infrastructure. Viewed as the control panel for infrastructure effectiveness, much like the speedometer and temperature gauges on your car, these tools capture resource usage information from your OS performance API or performance counters such as CPU, Disk, Memory, Network at a s...
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! How WWE Used Phunware’s Location Aware Technology Platform to Engage Fans at WrestleMania 30 in New Orleans
Monday, December 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
For World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), it’s all about giving fans the most cutting edge experience possible. At this year’s WrestleMania 30 in New Orleans, WWE was able to do just that in a new, meaningful, and decidedly interactive way.WWE hosted three WrestleMania-related events in New Orleans: WrestleMania Axxess (an event featuring autograph signings, live matches...
Sending the Baby on the Right Path: Quality Assurance as it Relates to Localization of Apps
Friday, August 22, 2014 by Tobias Scherf
Let's just admit it: at first glance, "quality assurance" doesn’t have a particularly sexy ring. It might even sound dry and tedious and repetitive. But in the localization world, we think QA is anything but dry and tedious. Sure, it might be a wee bit repetitive, but this is the stage when the localized app finally comes to life for us. After all the time spent on...
