More AWS perks for business users Amazon Web Services has beefed up its identity management and access control capabilities so that businesses can more easily apply permissions to users, groups and… Read more »
Although my original Chromebook Pixel still works well, the device is a few generations behind when it comes to the chips inside. Laptops using newer chips get noticeably more battery life on… Read more »
As deep learning continues gathering steam among researchers, entrepreneurs and the press, there’s a loud-and-getting-louder debate about whether its algorithms actually operate like the human brain does. The comparison might not make much… Read more »
There are several efforts to build a more decentralized internet — from attempts to build peer-to-peer wireless networks like Commotion or Open Garden to similar efforts with P2P browsers, such as… Read more »
There are a couple of seemingly contradictory memes rolling around the deep learning field. One is that you need a truly epic amount of data to… Read more »
Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »
Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the… Read more »
The week in cloud The past few weeks were not great for IBM but they did not bring the bloodbath — 110,000 job cuts or about 26 percent of total headcount — predicted by… Read more »