Transport Canberra and City Services to Utilize Itron Network to Enable Smart Energy and City Services in Canberra, Australia’s Capital City. Itron, Inc., VINCI Energies’ Electrix and Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) are working together to create an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network to support smart lighting and smart city and energy solutions […]
Archives for April 2019
Wi-Fi is not actually bad for your health, scientists say
Electronics have used the 2.4 and 5 GHz spectrum for years. These are not harmful, nor is any property unique to Wi-Fi harmful, according to new scientific evidence. Wi-Fi’s ubiquity in modern society has prompted a reactionary response among an increasingly vocal minority who claim Wi-Fi signals are hazardous to their health, a condition they […]
Presentation: Winning Ways for Your Visualization Plays
Bio Mark Grundland is working with Vanguard Strategy and Pfizer to analyze big data sets of patient treatment histories in order to construct a predictive model of market opportunities for drug repurposing. Previously, at Skimlinks, he investigated the contextual and behavioral factors that signal purchase intent, distinguishing people who are just browsing online from those […]
Black Holes and AI
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Facebook has promised to use artificial intelligence to stop suggesting users invite their dead friends to parties…“Once an account is memorialised, we use AI to help keep the profile from showing up in places that might cause distress, like recommending that person be invited to events or sending a birthday reminder to […]
Azure.Source – Volume 78
Preview | News & updates | Technical content | Azure shows | Events | Customers, partners, and industries Now in preview Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure When it comes to adding a performance tier between compute and file storage, Avere Systems has led the way with its high-performance caching appliance known as the Avere […]
How transparency through blockchain helps the cybersecurity community
Share this post: Blockchain technology is applicable to a wide range of industries, and the numerous use cases for it continue to grow by the day. The reasons for why companies, and even governments, are turning to blockchain for everyday business operations are many: faster transaction processing times, the elimination of a middle man, and […]
Alarming news – is anyone listening?
People respond to voice warnings; evacuations are speedier when timely information is communicated, says Steve Loughney of Siemens Building Technologies. Fire alarms blare, warning lights strobe; yet there are no flames or smoke. Building occupants often ignore or are slow to respond to standard fire alarm sounders and there is even a tendency for people […]
4 Tools That Leverage Big Data To Track Emails Better Than Ever
Big data is being incorporated in many aspects of email marketing. It has made it surprisingly easy for organizations to track the performance of email marketing campaigns in fascinating ways. How Big Data Changes Email Tracking No matter what your role is, if you work in the technology sector, you likely spend a large portion […]
QnA Maker updates – April 2019
We are excited to provide several updates for the QnA Maker service. To see previous releases for Conversational AI from Microsoft in March, see this post. New Bot Framework v4 Template for QnA Maker The QnA Maker service lets you easily create and manage a knowledge base from your data, including FAQ pages, support URLs, […]
Deploying Grafana for production deployments on Azure
This blog is co-authored by Nick Lopez, Technical Advisor at Microsoft. Grafana is one of the popular and leading open source tools for visualizing time series metrics. Grafana has quickly become the preferred visualization tool of choice for developers and operations teams for monitoring server and application metrics. Grafana dashboards enable operation teams to quickly […]