When Congress voted in March to reverse rules intended to protect Internet users’ privacy, many people began looking for ways to keep their online activity private. One of the most popular and effective is Tor, a software system millions of people use to protect their anonymity online. (more…)
New solutions offer up to 8TB of memory and VMware configurations to support data-intensive business applications powered by the SAP HANA platform.
ARMONK, N.Y. – 12 Sep 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of new SAP-certified bare metal servers for SAP HANA® platform deployments in the IBM Cloud and new configurations for VMware environments. The new cloud infrastructure-as-a-service solutions are designed to give enterprises the power and performance they need to manage their mission-critical applications running on SAP HANA. (more…)
IBM plans to make a 10-Year, $240 Million Investment in new lab with MIT to advance AI hardware and software and algorithms
Cambridge, MA – 07 Sep 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) research and seek to propel scientific breakthroughs that unlock the potential of AI. The collaboration aims to advance AI hardware, software and algorithms related to deep learning and other areas, increase AI’s impact on industries, such as health care and cybersecurity, and explore the economic and ethical implications of AI on society. IBM’s $240 million investment in the lab will support research by IBM and MIT scientists. (more…)
Global technology provider manages up to four billion transactions per day using a hybrid cloud environment
ARMONK, NY – 29 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Syniverse, a global connectivity enabler, has adopted IBM Cloud to expand its flexibility and capacity in serving rapidly changing mobile service needs for its customers. (more…)
Toxic or hateful comments on different internet forums, news portals are getting wildly common. Online commenting platform Disqus analysed 92 million comments from nearly 2 million users over a period of 16 months. The result is shown in the following infograph from Statista, the statistics portal. (more…)
„Das könnte dir gefallen“ oder „Top-Serien für Sie“: Amazon, Netflix und Co. scheinen zu wissen, was wir mögen. Dahinter stecken Algorithmen, deren Bedeutung in allen Lebensbereichen immer mehr zunimmt. Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Roland Schroll beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen von computerbasierten Verfahren auf unser Konsumverhalten. (more…)
No doubt, technology has a profound effect on our everyday lives. In fact, as technology advances, it becomes more crucial than ever that we strive to “keep up” less we fall behind the masses and lose our edge. (more…)
Growing up in the slums of the Philippines, Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez did not have the luxury of eating regular breakfast as a child. She was one of seven kids and life was hard for her family. She had only one pair of socks, which she would wash once a week. When it rained, she plugged the holes in her shoes with lollipop wrappers. When she was five years old, the Catholic nuns in the city invited Tuminez and her sisters to attend their school. That’s when her life changed. (more…)
