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The Internet of Things (IoT) Comes to the NFL
CIO.com: …each player will be equipped with a set of RFID sensors about the size of a quarter embedded in his shoulder pads, each emitting unique radio frequencies. Gillette Stadium (and every other stadium used by the NFL) has been … Continue reading
IBM Watson and Healthcare Big Data Analytics
Presiding over the ceremonial opening of the new IBM Watson Health global headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., IBM’s senior vice president Mike Rhodin highlighted the sometime-neglected focus of the effort to mine the ever-increasing quantities of health data. “We know that … Continue reading
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The global UAV drones market to grow 32% annually to reach $5.59 billion by 2020
MarketsAndMarkets: Before 2014, the use of UAV drones for commercial applications was highly regulated in countries such as the United States. Post 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has relaxed the norms for the use of UAV drones for commercial … Continue reading
2 Solutions to Demand for Tech Skills: Coding Bootcamps and Computer Science Education Starting in Elementary Schools
LinkedIn Official Blog: Technical talent is in high demand. As of publishing this post, a LinkedIn job search for “Software Engineers” in the US reveals more than 100,000 open jobs. Adding a couple more tech-related roles (“User Designer,” “Data Scientist”) … Continue reading
Steve Papa: Data volume is cumulative, analyses possibilities are combinatoric (video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKSCFBZzlM?rel=0] Steve Papa is an active founder and venture capitalist. As founder of Parallel Wireless he is making the deployment of the carrier-grade LTE RAN as easy as deploying enterprise Wi-Fi. As investor, he is active both as a … Continue reading
The Virtual Reality Landscape (Infographic)
Phil Orr and Max Wessel, Sapphire Ventures: ..we believe three characteristics of VR will help it carve out its position in the world of computing. These characteristics hint at Neal Stephenson’s metaverse. Namely, they are presence, scale, and interaction design. … Continue reading
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Startups Disrupting Apple (Infographic)
CB Insights: …we used CB Insights data and analysis to dig in and see which startups have been peeling away at some of the categories served by default iOS apps… We found dozens of investor-backed private companies developing apps that would … Continue reading
6 Highlights of a New Survey on Big Data Analytics
A new survey of 316 executives from large global companies, conducted by Forbes Insights and sponsored by Teradata in partnership with McKinsey, provides a fresh look at the state of big data analytics implementations. Here are the highlights. The hype … Continue reading
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Startups Disrupting Education with New Technologies
CB Insights: Venture capital funding to education technology startups passed $1.6B last year, across 217 deals. With ed tech startup investing becoming so competitive and crowded, it’s important to know where top VCs are placing their bets… Accel Partners, Felicis … Continue reading
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Looking at the Dark Side of the Net
Wired recently reported that hackers posted a “data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size… to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser.” The data included names, passwords, addresses, profile descriptions and several years of credit card data for … Continue reading
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