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Voice from CERN: Apache Spark 2.0 Performance Improvements Investigated With Flame Graphs
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Getting Going With Hadoop and Spark, the ClusterGX Option
The marketing message was all about huge scalability and the potential for big data.
Mossberg: Running Windows 10 and macOS Sierra together
The new Parallels 12 does the job well.
How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
Deep learning and a large public training data set called ImageNet has made an impressive amount of progress toward object recognition.
This 24-core, 16GB smartphone is likely vaporware
The iPhone 7 was unveiled and many are already bashing Apple for its lack of innovation.
Watch AI hack into AI at DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
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Threat of Blockchain Prompts New Strategy for Germany’s SAP
SAP SE’s engineers are trying to head off the latest challenge to its software empire: the blockchain.
Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There’s a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything.
DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services
Vendor lock-in is an important subject. Everybody knows that. But few of us realize just how complicated the subject is.
Microsoft’s earnings report shows it is becoming a serious force in the cloud
The software maker’s results come as the company continues to downplay its phone ambitions as well as a prolonged slowdown in PC sales that has limited its Windows PC business.
MapR, Microsoft make announcements at Hadoop and Red Hat summits
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The Mainframe: More Relevant Than Ever in a Cloud & Big Data World
Interesting perspective from the company visionary
Pepper robot gets first Android SDK…and it’s finally coming to America
Creativity of the Android community has no bounds!
Microsoft and SAP s Cloud Computing Platforms to Interoperate
Everybody wins from close cooperation between two industry leaders
The Blisk browser is a web developer’s dream come true
Long-awaited toolbox for development/debugging/testing
Giving up on Julia
Unnecessarily complicated codebase and insufficient attention to bug fixing. Julia turns out to be a bitter disappointment
Infosys Expands Cloud Business with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft
Poweful alliance at the helm of digital transformation for customers
Boost Your Productivity With Amazon Web Services
The largest player in the cloud computing keeps strengthening its position among users
Linux founder Torvalds on the Internet of Things: Security plays second fiddle
IoT connectivity and security holes of Linux devices that need patching
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning on Spark
Gaps in Spark are being sealed
Microsoft cozies up to Ubuntu as developers welcome cold day in hell
Great news for developers
Everything you need to know from Microsoft’s Build 2016 event
Good stuff for serious developers
Oracle Q3 takeaways: Ellison unfazed by Microsoft moves
Will the Oracle monopoly stand the test of time and competition ?
Oracle Cloud Growth Shows Promise as Company Tops Estimates
Oracle overriding ambitions seem to be changing into realistic expectations
Microsoft Offers Free Database Software to Lure Oracle Customers
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Microsoft Opens Its Corporate Data Software to Linux
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Microsoft Plans Linux Database in Bid to Win Sales From Oracle
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