Data and analytics are permeating all parts of the digital enterprise. Here are the trends you need to watch in the years ahead.
Archives for 2019
Trade uncertainty pushes down S&P 500, Nasdaq
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq stock indexes fell from record highs on Monday as uncertainty about progress in the U.S.-China trade talks again rose to the fore following comments by President Donald Trump, while a jump in Boeing Co shares helped keep the Dow Jones Industrial Average little changed.
Under the hood of the U.S. military’s facial recognition system
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“More women in India die from cervical cancer than in any other country. This preventable disease kills around 67,000 women in India every year, more than 25% of the 260,000 deaths worldwide…[a new] AI model can now differentiate between normal and abnormal [Pap] smear slides with accuracy and is currently under validation in […]
Why It’s Nice to Know What Can Go Wrong with AI
The mistakes and lessons learned early in the lifecycle of AI will serve all of us well in the future.
Announcing the general availability of the new Azure HPC Cache service
If data-access challenges have been keeping you from running high-performance computing (HPC) jobs in Azure, we’ve got great news to report! The now-available Microsoft Azure HPC Cache service lets you run your most demanding workloads in Azure without the time and cost of rewriting applications and while storing data where you want to—in Azure or […]
Democratizing agriculture intelligence: introducing Azure FarmBeats
For an industry that started 12,000 years ago, there is a lot of unpredictability and imprecision in agriculture. To be predictable and precise, we need to align our actions with insights gathered from data. Last week at Microsoft Ignite, we launched the preview of Azure FarmBeats, a purpose-built, industry-specific solution accelerator built on top of […]
Alibaba says Singles’ Day sales hit 91.2 billion yuan in first hour
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Inc said on Monday that sales for its annual Singles’ Day shopping blitz hit 91.2 billion yuan (10.18 billion pounds) within the first hour, up 32% from last year’s early haul of 69 billion yuan.
Trump says China trade talks moving along nicely, but deal has to be right
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that trade talks with China were moving along “very nicely,” but the United States would only make a deal with Beijing if it was the right deal for America.
Italian court convicts Deutsche Bank, Nomura in Monte Paschi derivative trial
An Italian court has convicted 13 former bankers from Deutsche Bank, Nomura and Monte dei Paschi di Siena over derivative deals that prosecutors say helped the Tuscan bank hide losses in one of the country’s biggest financial scandals.
The Hunt for the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ in Tech and Data Policy
During a preview of CES 2020, Gary Shapiro spoke about finding a balance between legislation and leeway for technology implementation.