Networking technology will need to improve at a pretty fast clip over the next couple of years to keep up with the deluge of data posed by the internet of things and cloud services, and a bunch of ex-Apple employees are claiming they’ve made a breakthrough.
Venturebeat profiles SnapRoute, which has developed networking technology that HP plans to use and that the startup plans to release to the Open Compute Project.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The Wall Street Journal put together a great package of thoughts and ideas from some of the leading artificial intelligence researchers of our time, including Facebook’s Yann LeCun and
Structure Data 2016 speaker Andrew Ng of Baidu. The combination of interviews and short essays is a great primer on the state of artificial intelligence in 2016, and where the field is headed next.
INSIDE JAPAN’S FUTURE EXASCALE ARM SUPERCOMPUTER The ARM server remains a bit of a unicorn in the tech industry -- and not in the lucrative way -- but Fujitsu announced this week that it is planning to build a huge supercomputer based on ARM processors by the end of the decade.
The Next Platform takes a look at Fujitsu’s plans, which were revealed this week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany (check out all of
The Next Platform’s coverage of the event here, it’s worth your time if you’re a Big Iron nerd).
WHY GENERAL ELECTRIC WON TALENT FROM APPLE We showcased
GE’s Chris Drumgoole at Structure 2015 explaining how the old and massive company is actually quite forward-thinking and nimble with its infrastructure planning, and now The Information (subscription required)
has more details on that strategy. GE has hired two former Apple engineers behind the creation of Siri to build out a new cloud service for its customers, and while GE is pretty adamant about moving internal applications to public cloud services, it’s developing a hybrid cloud approach to serve its external customers.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NORTH KOREA’S SUSPECTED BANK BLITZKRIEG As embarrassing as the Sony hack was for executives of that company, this is a little more serious.
Fortune looks at the digital heist of $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh, which is suspected to have come from groups affiliated with The Hermit Kingdom.
HOW GOOGLE IS REMAKING ITSELF AS A “MACHINE LEARNING FIRST” COMPANY The easiest way to tell that Google is really serious about a new technology is when it lets that technology run Google Search.
Backchannel has a good piece interviewing several Googlers -- including Structure Data 2016 speaker Jeff Dean -- on how the engineers-first search giant is making the transition to a company driven by the principles of machine learning.
