TikTok and Instagram stock popularity revealed by new study
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
A new study conducted with the help of global fintech group Plus500 examined each company within the S&P 500 by analyzing the volume of content generated and the corresponding views on TikTok and Instagram. Subsequently, the stock prices were compared between January 3rd, 2023, and April 8th, 2024, to assess the performance of S&P 500 stocks favored by traders o...
Many expect Facebook to fail as they shift toward Metaverse
Thursday, March 9, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Over the past few years, the Metaverse has proven to be a controversial topic, with some embracing the technological development and others shunning the idea of it. Particularly, Facebook's Metaverse has caused a division in opinions, with many questioning its capability in creating its own.
47% of respondents expect Facebook to fail as they shift toward the...
Unicorn Academy AR education platform from STTE
Tuesday, December 27, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Success Through Technology Education (STTE) Foundation and Geenee AR, has announced the launch of Unicorn Academy, the first-ever augmented reality (AR) education program focused on advancing youth entrepreneurship.
Unicorn Academy is geared toward students in grades 8-12 who are curious about entrepreneurship and want to develop the fundamental skills needed to laun...
Automated testing in 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ajay Dawar, Alok Kulkarni, James Isaacs, and Linda Chen from Cyara discuss their 2022 predictions about real-time quality assurance, adopting automated testing, balancing employee experience and innovation, how to deliver innovative customer experiences, why AI won't displace humans for customer support, how enterprises can achieve digital transformation success, an...
DeFi platform expands into the NFT space
Monday, December 20, 2021 by Richard Harris
Umbria Network has augmented its position in the NFT space with its second phase of partnerships.
The protocol has introduced its novel Narni cross-chain liquidity bridge to a wider NFT audience via collaborations with innovative projects that are minting and selling on the Polygon blockchain. When buying NFTs on a Polygon marketplace such as OpenSea, users must brid...
Why an App is Teslas CX weapon
Monday, May 17, 2021 by Richard Harris
Recently General Motors announced that the company wants to end production of all diesel and gasoline-powered cars, trucks, and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles. Now, with GM trying to be as green as Tesla, eyeing the automotive maker as a key competitor, what will it take to win out? A superior app, explains Subrah Iyar, former founder o...
Investing in Bitcoin by baby boomers and Gen X
Thursday, February 25, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Baby boomers and Gen X are piling into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations.
The observation from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group comes from a global poll of clients aged over 55 found that 70% of those surveyed are already invested...
Bitcoin reaches new highs in first part of 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect volatility due to increasing regulatory scrutiny.
This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations.
It comes...
StrandHogg Android vulnerability identified
Thursday, December 5, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Promon, a Norwegian app security company, has identified tangible evidence of a dangerous Android vulnerability that allows malware to pose as any legitimate app, granting hackers access to private SMS’ and photos, steal victims’ log-in credentials, track movements, make and/or record phone conversations, and spy through a phone’s camera and microphone...
Bitcoin donations helping software students
Friday, January 11, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Holberton School New Haven, a two-year program training software engineers, announced a $10,000 Bitcoin donation from Scroll Network’s co-founder Nathan Pitruzzello which will be used to help qualifying students offset living expenses while attending the two-year program. Holberton is among the first schools using Blockchain to store academic certifications to ass...
GTC Japan yields huge new NVIDIA announcements
Monday, September 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
At GTC Japan in Tokyo, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, announced a host of new technologies and products during his signature keynote speaking event. And in case you missed it, here is a list of all of the new announcements that came out of the event:
NVIDIA TensorRT Hyperscale Platform
NVIDIA has announced a new AI data center platform delivering an advanced inferen...
How feature flags saved my marriage
Thursday, July 19, 2018 by Ronit Belson
A year ago, I decided to finally make the switch from an average car to a smart car. My “excuse” for spending more than $80K on a car was Tesla’s main feature, autonomous drive. This would make my 80 mile daily round-trip commute bearable. Eventually, I decided to bite the “price tag bullet” and invest in the autonomous driving car so I cou...
AI computing and HPC just got better with the HGX2 cloud server
Thursday, May 31, 2018 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has introduced HGX-2, a unified computing platform for both artificial intelligence and high-performance computing in the cloud. The HGX-2 cloud server platform helps provides unique flexibility to support the future of computing. It allows calculations using FP64 and FP32 for scientific computing and simulations, while also enabling FP16 and Int8 for AI training...
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...
Wait, what did NVIDIA just announce
Saturday, March 31, 2018 by Richard Harris
At NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the CEO and founder of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, made a whole bunch of announcements ranging from computational improvements to self-driving vehicle simulations. If you weren't at the conference to see it all, that's alright because here's the rundown of everything you need to know about the latest technology coming out of...
Creating connected car apps just got easier
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
When was the last time you sat down and wrote an app that would communicate with a car? I thought so - me either. The challenge with making automotive apps is knowing which vehicles you can target. With almost every auto manufacturer doing their own thing, and little documentation about how to make it all play nice with your code, it can be enough to make developers wav...
NVIDIA urges congressional committee to embrace AI
Thursday, February 22, 2018 by Richard Harris
Artificial intelligence represents the biggest technological and economic shift in our lifetime, NVIDIA’s Ian Buck told a U.S. Congressional committee recently. In testimony before a hearing of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Information Technology, Buck, vice president and general manager of our Tesla business, said the federal government should increase r...
Why the cost of cloud computing is dropping dramatically
Thursday, January 25, 2018 by Bill Supernor
You might read the headline statement that the cost of cloud computing is dropping and say “Well, duh!”. Or maybe you’re on the other side of the fence. A coworker recently referred me to a very interesting blog on the Kapwing site that states Cloud costs aren’t actually dropping dramatically. The author defines “dramatically” based on the targets set by Moore’s Law or ...
IBM upgrades its qubit processing systems for commercial use
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM announced two significant quantum processor upgrades for its IBM Q early-access commercial systems. These upgrades represent rapid advances in quantum hardware as IBM continues to drive progress across the entire quantum computing technology stack, with focus on systems, software, applications and enablement. The first IBM Q systems available online to c...
Let the machines do the work
Friday, November 10, 2017 by Patrick McClory
Automation is everywhere. According to research from Gartner, by 2019 “75 percent of enterprises will have more than six diverse automation technologies within their IT management portfolios.” Just three years ago, that number was fewer than 20 percent. To some, the growing trend of automation signals an industry shift away from throwing bodies at problems and toward le...
Oracle to use the new NVIDIA Tesla GPU
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced that it will be using the latest Tesla GPU accelerators for its public cloud at Oracle OpenWorld, Don Johnson, the company’s senior vice president of product development. Additionally, he said Oracle will expand its cloud offerings to include Tesla V100 GPUs.“We’re working closely with NVIDIA to provide the next generation of accelerated computing t...
Google Cloud expands NVIDIA GPU offerings
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
In a recent post in on the Google Cloud Platform Blog written by Chris Kleban and Ari Liberman, Product Managers for Google Compute Engine, Google has announced new updates to their Cloud GPUs, namely: the platform is now using NVIDIA P100 GPUs in beta, and that the NVIDIA K80 has now been released for general availability.In the blog post, Google had this to say about ...
The HTML5 killer you may not know about
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
For years HTML has been the universal language for website construction, and it has been impressively resilient in the face of competing languages thus far. It’s been known to have the best combination of speed, security, responsiveness and compatibility of all programming languages on the market. However, the world is expanding beyond the internet browser to mobile and...
Memery launches a new drone video app called Dragonfly
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Memery a provider of location based video apps, announces the launch of Dragonfly, a complete solution for drone video. While the company has also added Darren Liccardo, former DJI executive and drone technology expert, to its advisory board. Available now on the App Store the launch kicks off the Try Dragonfly in July promotional event. For the next month Dra...
Everything you need to know about GPU Technology Conference
Friday, May 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
Everyone is having a great time this year at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, so if you don't make it this year, there is always next year. The major topic this year that has stood out from the rest has to be Artificial Intelligence. As the cutting edge of AI technology gets closer to making better faster smarter mechanical beings, computer processing speeds too must...
Kinetica is now available on the Nimbix Cloud
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Kinetica, provider of the in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, has announced its real-time analytics and visualization solution is available on the Nimbix Cloud."Kineticas GPU accelerated database platform paired with Nimbixs Cloud is a natural fit for customers looking for performance and ease-of-use from a cloud deployment," said Steve Hebert, CEO, Nimbix. "Wit...
What app development technologies we missed in 2016 and what's coming next
Saturday, January 14, 2017 by TJ VanToll
It’s that time again to look at the year ahead and consider what trends and technologies will reign supreme in the application development world. As mobile apps become the main driver of accelerating digital transformation in businesses, more developers and vendors are focusing on the latest technology needed to excel. But with developer tools and languages evolving as ...
Driverless cars will make auto insurance more complex
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Ford Motor Company announced plans to produce fully autonomous cars by 2021. These vehicles will be manufactured in high-volume production and will be tailored for ride-hailing and ride-sharing operations, which means they will not have steering wheels, brake pedals, or other controls for human occupants. “This is a new world for insurers,” said Michael Macauley, CEO of...
Built.io Releases New Functionality to its Flow iPaaS Integration Solution
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Built.io has released a number of new features to its Built.io Flow Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) which creates workflows and automates business processes for connected sensors, devices, systems and applications across mobile, web and IoT.Platform enhancements include: - Activity Builder: In addition to thousands of out-of-the-box integrations maintaine...
Navigating the ITOps Autobahn and How Teams Can Avoid the Biggest Speed Bumps
Sunday, June 5, 2016 by Tim Armandpour
What do the Autobahn, the world famous freeway network in Germany, and IT operations have in common? For one thing, the Autobahn is known for a lack of speed limits, allowing drivers to race toward their destinations at break-neck speed. Similarly, DevOps teams move fast and break things even faster, all in the name of bringing new services and features to market at hig...
New Security Report Reveals Increased Threat for Mobile Applications
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
According to a new cyber security report, mobile applications increasingly have become top security threats plaguing enterprises over the past year. The details are outlined in the recently published Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cyber Risk Report 2016.As the company points out in the report, traditional network perimeters are disappearing allowing attack surfaces to...
Internet of APIs (IoA) will Break Out in 2016
Monday, December 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Kurt Collins, Director of Technology Evangelism and Partnerships at Built.io, about the impact the Internet of APIs (IoA) will have in 2016.ADM: We’ve all heard the term the “Internet of Things (IoT),” but how will this evolve in 2016 and how so?Collins: The year 2015 was a breakout year for the Internet of Things. The Apple Watch was released a...
Epic Games Announces Educational Recipients for Unreal Dev Grants Program
Thursday, September 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Epic Games has announced the first round of the academic and educational category recipients of its Unreal Dev Grants, a $5 million program Epic launched earlier this year to provide funding to developers of promising early-stage projects. The academic and educational category provides grants for class projects, engine extensions, curricula, tutorials, or any other...
Continuous Delivery is Eating DevOps as Software is Eating the Business
Thursday, March 26, 2015 by Sacha Labourey
For years, IT has been automating business processes. Now IT is automating its own processes to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to meet the business demand for new software features and capabilities. Continuous DeliveryWhat if the business could release dozens of tested software improvements to production daily? Could the business respond to market and cu...
Glass Tesla App Reveals Future Developer Opportunities
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
In his article posted on Minyanville, Jake Barach reports app developer Sahas Katta has created the Glass Tesla app for Google Glass that can manage the car manufacturer's Tesla S model climate, lock and unlock doors, open the sunroof, locate and track the vehicle, start and stop charging, and display gas mileage.Of particular interest is the usage of the Google gl...
