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Indian researchers teach computers how to watch cricket
Researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, and Xerox Corp. have come up with a novel way to help computers understand human movement on video by studying cricket matches. Teaching computers to interpret human movements on video is extremely difficult, because whatever system is used needs to understand which frames represent ...
Mozilla insists its no longer dependent on Google for cash
The Mozilla Foundation has publicly boasted that it’s no longer dependent on Google for the bulk of its revenues, and that it hopes to make even more cash from its new search deals with companies like Yahoo! Inc., Yandex and Baidu Inc. For years, the maker of the Firefox browser and other open-source software generated ...
HP’s final quarter is one to forget
The two entities that once made Hewlett-Packard Co. have posted mixed results in their final earnings report together. The already-split enterprise posted combined revenues of $25.7 billion in its last quarter, slightly below analysts’ expectations and a nine percent drop from one year ago. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share of $0.93 were below Wall Street’s ...
Most businesses ‘lack visibility’ into the public cloud
Public cloud adoption is exploding, but a new industry survey reveals that many are struggling to see an immediate return on their investments due to a lack of visibility, monitoring and infrastructure control in their environments. ScienceLogic, Inc.‘s Trends in Global Cloud Adoption survey of more than 1,600 IT pros found that a massive 83 ...
HPE & Microsoft to collaborate on Cloud, Mobility & Windows 10
Following its split from HP Inc. last month, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has wasted little time in reinforcing its warm relationship with Microsoft, announcing a new collaboration to push Windows 10 solutions to enterprises worldwide. The two companies said they’ll collaborate in three areas, namely in cloud, mobility and productivity. It’s a move that echoes the ...
AWS now offering dedicated servers for your eyes only
Amazon Web Services is offering its customers the chance to rent out “physical servers fully dedicated for your use” via a new service called EC2 Dedicated Hosts. The new service gives companies the option of running licensed software on multiple AWS virtual machines cooked up in a single server. It’s a big difference from the ...
IBM open-sources its SystemML machine learning tech
IBM has fulfilled its promise to open-source SystemML, a machine learning system that’s now been accepted as an Apache Incubator project. It’s a significant milestone for SystemML, which is already used to power IBM’s BigInsights data analytics platform. The Apache Incubator program is a kind of stepping stone on the way to becoming a full ...
Intel swoops on Qualcomm’s Venkata Renduchintala to lead its IoT biz
Chip-maker king Intel has swooped to hire the former executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., barely 24 hours after he left his old employer. Dr Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala has been appointed as the president of Intel’s newly created Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group, which accounts for the bulk ...
Gartner: Windows 10 adoption to outpace that of Windows 7
Gartner Inc. is predicting good times ahead for Windows 10, saying it fully expects to see an upsurge in enterprise rollouts of the operating system in the first six months of next year. Most enterprises will begin with pilot rollouts before broadening their deployments later in the year. By the beginning of 2017, Gartner says ...
NASA proposes FireSat system to detect wildfires from space
NASA says it wants to build a vast new constellation of satellites to monitor and protect the Earth, and it’s turning to an unlikely source of funding – through Kickstarter – in order to do so. But before you start panicking, realize that NASA isn’t turning to crowdfunding to ward of the threat of alien ...