The revised version of the HiFive1 embedded development board from SiFive adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support on the Arduino-compatible board. On Tuesday, SiFive introduced a modest upgrade to the HiFive1 single-board computer (SBC), which is now powered by the newly-released FE310-G002 revision of SiFive’s E31 RISC-V core. The original HiFive1 and FE310-G000 were introduced in […]
Archives for 2019
Semtech Announces Availability of LoRa Cloud™ Geolocation
The new service simplifies the integration of a geolocation service for all LoRaWAN™-based devices. Semtech Corporation announced the availability of LoRa Cloud™ Geolocation, a new Cloud-based geolocation service that is compatible with the LoRaWAN™ protocol and almost any network server. The geolocation service can be easily integrated to provide a low-cost, performance-optimized solution, and is […]
Accelerating Employee Experience with IoT – Haltian and Tieto Partner to Make Workplaces Empathic
Oulu-based IoT and product development company Haltian and internationally-operating Nordic software and services company Tieto, have agreed a multiannual commercial cooperation concerning Tieto’s Empathic Building service. The smart office market is predicted to double in the next five years, and the shared offering of the two companies provides customers with a faster way of digitising […]
Securely monitoring your Azure Database for PostgreSQL Query Store
A few months ago, I shared best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Though I was able to cover how to monitor certain key metrics on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, I did not cover how to monitor and alert on the performance of queries that your application is heavily relying on. […]
Reducing security alert fatigue using machine learning in Azure Sentinel
Last week we launched Azure Sentinel, a cloud native SIEM tool. Machine learning (ML) in Azure Sentinel is built-in right from the beginning. We have thoughtfully designed the system with ML innovations aimed to make security analysts, security data scientists, and engineers productive. The focus is to reduce alert fatigue and offer ML toolkits tailored […]
Rising stars: Top IoT start-ups across industries
IoT proves to be a transformative force for many businesses, regardless of industry. Yet, there are a few sectors that can benefit from this concept in particular – and both start-ups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seem to be well aware of that, as new ventures offering powerful IoT solutions emerge. Before digging deeper […]
Get ready to have your face scanned at the airport
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“In most hospitals and clinics around the world, trained physicians make this diagnosis, examining a patient’s eyes and identifying the tiny lesions, hemorrhages and discoloration that anticipate diabetic blindness. But Aravind is trying to automate the process. Working with a team of Google artificial intelligence researchers based in California, the hospital is testing […]
Brookings Report: Big Data Is Key To Improving Writing Skills
Big data is typically associated with the professions that became popular during the 21st Century digital boom. However, big data advances have also played a role in shaping many other skill sets. Writing is one of the competencies that is affected by big data. A 2013 report from Brookings showed this. Big Data is Playing […]
How Big Data Is Interrupting The Real Estate Industry
Big data has a lot of applications. While we usually focus on big data’s impact in the marketing and fitness industries, there are other sectors that are equally affected by them. Large-scale real estate companies and firms have been using big data for a long time, but now the technology is becoming more affordable and […]
Linear Regression Joins the Suite of Supervised Methods on BigML
The latest BigML release brings a tried and true Machine Learning algorithm to the platform: Linear Regression. We intend to make it generally available on Thursday, March 21, 2019. This simple technique is well understood and widely used across industries. As such, it has been a frequently requested algorithm by our customers and we are […]