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The Rise of Streaming Apps, and What Developers Need to Consider (Forbes)

Streaming apps (or real-time apps) produce and process data in real time. Think of IoT, financial services or travel booking. Extracting insights from streaming data requires a com... More

AWS Introduces High Memory Instances for Amazon EC2 (HITS)

To meet the rapidly expanding data needs of its customers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) made available new High Memory instances for its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), off... More

Are We in the Age of Open Source? (Wipro Blog)

Today, open source is recognized as a core driver of competitive advantage and as a better way to build software, rather than just a disparate set of technology components spread t... More

IBM Hursley: 60 Years of Innovation at Big Blue’s R&D Hub (CBR)

About five miles south from the city of Winchester in England is the village of Hursley, home to just 800 people. A visitor to the village cruising down the winding main road may b... More

Simplify IT – Modernizing Today’s IT Infrastructure While Building for the Future (DXC Technology Blog)

Digital transformation is reaching deeper into companies and industries every day. As it does, CIOs will need to spend more time on new technologies to drive corporate growth and i... More

AT&T Dives Into Blockchain Solutions with Microsoft Azure, IBM Blockchain (Bitcoin Magazine)

AT&T has designed a set of blockchain solutions compatible with both IBM and Microsoft technology to help customers reduce risks and costs and solve other complex business problems... More

5 Ways AI Can Help Solve Today’s Talent Crisis (Forbes)

The talent crisis is getting worse because trial-and-error approaches to talent programs don’t deliver results. More employees than ever, 83%, want a new job yet only 53% want to... More

IBM Releases Pre-Trained AI Toolkit For 9 Industries (CBR)

IBM is releasing pre-trained AI algorithms for its IBM Watson engine across nine different industries: agriculture, customer services, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing,... More

Artificial Intelligence: The Robots are Now Hiring (WSJ)

Hiring is undergoing a profound revolution. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation -- from robot avatars interviewing job candidates to computers weeding ... More

Planning a Big Project? Story Mapping Provides the Blueprint for Success (DXC Technology Blog)

Big projects can be daunting. You need to start somewhere, and you need a plan, but it’s surprising how many projects launch with people just starting to work without developing ... More

Peering Into the Visual Landscape of Half a Billion News Images with Google’s Cloud Inference API (Forbes)

What new insights could we learn about how we “see” the world around us by using Google’s Cloud Vision API deep learning image recognition platform to catalog half a billion ... More

How Forward-Thinking Companies are Addressing the Digital Talent Gap (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

While every business’s digital journey is unique, one aspect will be consistent across the board: Employee talent investment. As digital technologies such as artificial intellige... More

How to Secure a Premier League Football Team (Forbes)

Arsenal is preparing to play Everton in the Premier League this Sunday. Led by manager Unai Emery, the team will currently be researching its opposition and formulating a game plan... More

Google Cloud Study: How DevOps Can Reshape the Global Economy (Digital Journey)

A new report from Google Cloud provides a comprehensive view of the growing DevOps industry, with scientific studies that span five years and more than 30,000 survey responses. An ... More

The Tech Enabling the MMO Gaming Experience (Western Digital Blog)

MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) Gaming is big business. In 2017, an estimated $30 billion USD was spent on MMO gaming. That number is projected to grow even further. Players loc... More

The Future of Being a Woman in Technology (IA)

The glaring gender imbalance in the tech industry is there for all to see. Laura Malcolm, from Avanade, looks at the future of women in tech.... More

Microsoft Acquires AI Startup Lobe to Make Deep Learning More Accessible (The Record)

Microsoft has acquired San Francisco based AI startup company Lobe in order to make deep learning more accessible. Lobe’s visual interface lets people easily create intelligent a... More

Advancing a Culture of Education at IBM (Forbes)

Some companies say that they are a learning organization, but IBM actually is one. The numbers alone prove it. IBMers consume an average 60 hours of professional education a year... More

Inside Disney’s StudioLab, Where the Company Tests, Previews Cutting-Edge Technology (Variety)

The lab has been founded with the goal of letting creatives from all of the company’s film studios, including Disney Live Action, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation S... More

Study: AI Could Spur Global Growth (CNBC)

Artificial intelligence could contribute an additional 1.2 percent to annual gross domestic product growth for at least the next decade, according to a simulation from McKinsey Glo... More

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