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IBM Announces Planned Acquisition of Promontory to Transform Regulatory Compliance with Watson

By Guest PostSeptember 29, 2016Technologyacquisition, bridget van kralingen, eugene ludwig, financial group, ibm, promontory, watson

Promontory’s 600 professionals and offerings will form the foundation of new Watson Financial Services portfolio from IBM’s Industry Platforms business

ARMONK, N.Y. – 29 Sep 2016: IBM today announced plans to acquire Promontory Financial Group, a global market-leading risk management and regulatory compliance consulting firm. Upon close, the capabilities of Promontory combined with IBM’s deep industry expertise and Watson’s cognitive capabilities will directly address the massive operational effort and manual cost of escalating regulation and risk management requirements. (more…)

An Important Message to Yahoo Users on Security

By Guest PostSeptember 22, 2016Technologyhashed passwords, security, user account, yahoo users

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)– A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information; payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system that the investigation has found to be affected. Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen and the investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo’s network. Yahoo is working closely with law enforcement on this matter. (more…)

How six scrappy young inventors built a breakthrough text-to-Braille translator device

By Guest PostSeptember 21, 2016Technologybraille converter, braille literacy rate, solar thermal fields, team tactile, technology competition, young inventors

A group of engineering students knew exactly what they wanted to build at a student technology competition, and they had just 15 hours to do it.

As they worked furiously alongside other MIT students, the young women hit a series of snags. They had to wait in long lines to use the 3D printer and laser cutter they needed to shape various parts for their project. Some of the supplies their design called for had already been snatched up by others. (more…)

New microchip demonstrates efficiency and scalable design

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2016Technologydavid wentzlaff, michael mckeown, mohammad shahrad, new microchip, piton

Princeton University researchers have developed a new computer chip that promises to boost the performance of data centers that lie at the core of numerous online services such as email and social media. (more…)

People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient, effective ones

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2016Science, Technologyadriana hamacher, bert2, bristol robotics laboratory, communicative robots, humanoid robot, polystyrene eggs

Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new UCL-led study suggests. (more…)

Crowd Worker: Gut ausgebildet, teilweise nicht abgesichert, im Hauptjob nur rund 1.500 Euro Durchschnittseinkommen

By Guest PostSeptember 6, 2016Technologyarbeit der zukunft, crowd worker, crowdsourcing, internet, klickarbeiter, marco leimeister, outsourcing

Das Heer der Klickarbeiter im Internet wächst. Eine neue Studie der Universität Kassel liefert erstmals einen qualitativen Überblick darüber, wer die Menschen in der „Crowd“ sind – und warum die digitale Erwerbsarbeit faire Spielregeln braucht. (more…)

Katie Stone Perez: Getting everyone in the game

By Guest PostSeptember 5, 2016Technologychris charla, games, katie stone perez, Microsoft, the hole story, xbox

Katie Stone Perez brims over with excitement when talking about Xbox games. All Xbox games. Today the senior program manager for Microsoft’s independent developer program, ID@Xbox, is particularly enthused about “The Hole Story,” a new game about a budding young archaeologist named Wendy who digs in her backyard and discovers a portal to a strange land. (more…)

IBM Study: Hybrid Clouds Dominate — Enable Companies to Innovate, Exceed Expectations

By Guest PostSeptember 1, 2016Technologyhybrid cloud strategy, hybrid clouds, ibm study, marie wieck

ARMONK, N.Y. – 01 Sep 2016: Almost every company is using the cloud, but not for everything, finds a new IBM study. Seventy-eight percent of respondents say their cloud initiatives are coordinated or fully integrated, compared to just 34 percent in 2012. And, among high performing organizations, that number climbs to 83 percent. At the same time, nearly half of workloads — 45 percent — are expected to remain on-premises with dedicated servers. (more…)

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