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EMC’s David Goulden on the Reasons for not Breaking up with VMware (Video)
http://player.theplatform.com/p/PhfuRC/vNP4WUiQeJFa/embed/select/FGx9a5if6xCz?autoPlay=true&t=259 David Goulden, EMC: “Our corporate clients are looking for fewer, more strategic technology partners, not more small partners. vendors re/code: Goulden is the CEO of EMC’s information infrastructure business unit, the biggest portion of the federation that includes its … Continue reading
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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
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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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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Top 10 Programming Languages 2015
Note: Left column shows 2015 ranking; right column shows 2014 ranking. Source: IEEE Spectrum The big five—Java, C, C++, Python, and C#—remain on top, with their ranking undisturbed, but C has edged to within a whisper of knocking Java off … Continue reading
Why Humans Will Forever Rule Over the Machines
Everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about the imminent triumph of intelligent machines over humans. They will take our jobs, they will make their own decisions, they will be even more intelligent than humans, they pose a threat to humanity … Continue reading
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How Much Will You Pay to Protect Your Data?
Source: Harvard Business Review See also: ‘We The People Have A Lot Of Work To Do’ Says Schneier In A Must-Read Book On Security And Privacy
Mobile is Eating the World (Slideshare)
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Facebook is in a category all by itself (#dataviz)
Venturebeat.com: Findings in a new report released by Verto Analytics: 222 million U.S. Facebook users tend to spend 14 hours per month in the company’s app. (That’s 335,000 years worth of time, by the way.) Google reaches 228 million U.S. users, … Continue reading
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