Machine Learning

Google Joins Rush to Nvidia Cloud GPUs

Google has taken down the notice on its cloud platform website that says Nvidia Tesla P100s are “coming soon.” The search giant announced Thursday (Sept. 21) the beta launch ...Full Article

Advice to AI Startups: Lift Veil on Algorithms

The hardheaded folks who advise investors on what technologies show promise and which are mostly smoke and mirrors are beginning to weigh in on much-hyped approaches such as machine ...Full Article

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‘Neural’ Network Fabric Boosts Server Links

As network bottlenecks mount in datacenters—a hurdle that will only get worse with the deployment of business analytics using machine learning—there is a growing need for networking solutions that ...Full Article

ARM Doubles Down on AI

ARM Ltd. joined a growing roster of processor specialists zeroing in on artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with the introduction of two new processor cores, one emphasizing performance, ...Full Article

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IBM Coils Anaconda Around Power Processor

IBM, which recently extended support for the Anaconda data science platform to its open source mainframe, takes another step this week by offering the data platform on its Cognitive ...Full Article

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Machine Learning and Online Security in 2017

As companies increase their digital footprints, ‘identify and diagnose’ capabilities will not defend against the growing array of security threats, according to analysts at Gartner Group. Because the types ...Full Article

Where Do We Come From? Ancestry.com’s 19B-Record ‘Big Tree’ Database May Have the Answer

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We?” Not only Paul Gauguin (see picture) but most of humanity has been vexed by these questions since… well, since the dawn ...Full Article

AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence

At the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma, Calif., last week (Dec. 7-9), CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company’s vision to accelerate machine intelligence over the next five to ten years with ...Full Article

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Forecast: Hackers Target Software-Based Nets

Among the growing list of security threats expected to expand in the coming year are hackers probing emerging software-defined infrastructure for vulnerabilities. According to a security forecast released this ...Full Article

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GE Makes Splash With Data Deals

Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for ...Full Article