The Internet of Things (IOT) is growing at an unprecedented pace. By the end of next year, utility companies are expected to spend around $120 billion on IOT technologies. McKinsey estimates that spending on ICT-based IOT products alone will exceed $580 billion. This means that the annual growth rate for this market will be between […]
Archives for April 2019
The Evolution of the Digital Asset Market in 2019 — Q1 Update
After 2017’s Crypto-Optimism and 2018’s Crypto-Pessism, it is time for Crypto-Realism. After a year of lower and lower prices, crypto has made its long-awaited come-back. In Q1/19, both trading volumes and overall digital asset prices increased and show a strong upward trend. Most notably, prices of four of the Top 10 most traded digital assets […]
Deep Learning, Part 2: Depth Charge
In the first in this series of posts, I discussed a bit about why deep learning isn’t fundamentally different from the rest of machine learning, and why that lack of a difference implies many contexts in which deep networks will fail to perform at a human level of cognition, for a variety of reasons. Is […]
5 Innovative Ways Big Data Is Shaping Cities Of The Future
According to a UN study, 55% of the total world population is living in cities and by the year 2050, this figure could rise to a whopping 68%. The modern world is increasingly urbanized and megacities are rising faster than ever before, especially in Asian and African countries. The report highlighted that, at the present […]
Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway
We are pleased to share the capability to rewrite HTTP headers in Azure Application Gateway. With this, you can add, remove, or update HTTP request and response headers while the request and response packets move between the client and backend application. You can also add conditions to ensure that the headers you specify are rewritten […]
Blockchain Smartphone Company Sirin Labs Struggling to Survive, But Why?
Sirin Labs, a company behind Finney blockchain smartphone has recently announced to lay off its 15 out of 60 employees. Less than a month ago, Sirin Labs had teamed up with MyEtherWallet, Ethereum wallet generating service for an integration benefiting both the firm. Following the latest lay-off announcement, one specific reason that has revealed is […]
The London Stock Exchange Conducts World’s First Security Token Offering (STO) on the Blockchain
The London Stock Exchange has granted permission to issue its first Security Token Offering (STO) or Equity-Token Offering (ETO). 20|30 is the limited private firm that has been accepted into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Sandox 4 and will conduct the STO. <![CDATA[ ]]> Beginning of An Era of Blockchain Tokens The tokens will be recorded […]
How Wix Is Using Predictive Analytics To Deliver Top-Tier Websites
Predictive analytics is the foundation of modern marketing. Companies rely on predictive analytics to: Get a better understanding of customer behavior based on past data that has been collected Use existing data sets to identify future trends that will influence the future of your business Evaluate previous data repositories to identify threats and take corrective […]
Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy
AzCopy v10 (Preview) now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 as a data source. You can now copy an entire AWS S3 bucket, or even multiple buckets, to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy. Customers who wanted to migrate their data from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage have faced challenges because they had to bring […]
Machine Learning powered detections with Kusto query language in Azure Sentinel
This post is co-authored by Tim Burrell, Principal Security Engineering Manager and Dotan Patrich, Principal Software Engineer. As cyberattacks become more complex and harder to detect. The traditional correlation rules of a SIEM are not enough, they are lacking the full context of the attack and can only detect attacks that were seen before. This […]