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FinTech Startups:The Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services
Source: Startup Management HT: Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence The Economist: Bitcoin fanatics are enthralled by the libertarian ideal of a pure, digital currency beyond the reach of any central bank. The real innovation is not the digital coins themselves, but … Continue reading
Driverless Cars: A Misguided 20th Century Idea
IEEE Spectrum: A vision of fully autonomous, self-driving cars allowing human owners to nap or read in the car seems to come from the future. But David Mindell, a historian and electrical engineer at MIT, says that the idea of such … Continue reading
Connected Cars: A History of Security Vulnerabilities
Chris Poulin, IBM, on Tech Crunch: A Short History Of Car Vulnerability Research In 2010, researchers from the University of Washington and University of California, San Diego published a seminal paper proving that once an attacker has physical access to a … Continue reading
The Dell-EMC Merger and the Googlization of IT
Yes, Joe Tucci is a great salesman and Michael Dell is the ultimate entrepreneur, but it is Google that is really behind the $67 billion merger. Tucci: “The waves of change we now see in our industry are unprecedented and, … Continue reading
Survey: The Hunt for Unicorn Data Scientists Boosts the Salaries of Predictive Analytics Professionals
Unicorn Data Scientists (upgraded from “sexy data scientists”) are hard to find and are paid more than $200,000 per year. A new survey finds that the rising data science tide lifts the compensation of all other data analytics professionals, even … Continue reading
How to Become a Unicorn Data Scientist and Make More than $240,000
What makes a good data scientist? And if you are a good data scientist, how much should you expect to get paid? Owen Zhang, ranked #1 on Kaggle, the online stadium for data science competitions, lists his skills on his Kaggle … Continue reading
Video: What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07MZVjjuLKw?rel=0] CTIA-The Wireless Association explains the opportunities the IoT will provide and what is needed in order to meet user demands (hint: spectrum!).
Dell-EMC deal largest-ever tech acquisition (Infographic)
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Compatibility Research Inc., granddaddy of online dating (Video)
Video: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:13415984 Five thirty Eight: In our modern age of Tinder, OkCupid and Match.com, we’re used to the idea that algorithms can help us find love. But while the algorithms may have improved as the market for online dating has … Continue reading
IBM Watson and Ken Jennings Compete Again, This Time for Title of Most Productive (Video)
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