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Gigaom Full Circle Newsletter Announcing Gigaom Change 05/13/16 Nanotechnology Virtual Reality 5 Incredible Trends That Will Shape Our 3D Printed Future Virtual Reality And A Parallel Universe Of Cyberclones 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence This 3D Printer Makes Robots That Can Walk Away as Soon as They're Done MIT builds Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85% of Cyber Attacks Robotics Cybersecurity Tech trends 2016: Cybersecurity in the connected world A Study In The Interconnectedness Of Things Announcing Gigaom Change Stowe Boyd interviews Gigaom CEO Byron Reese about launch of new conference, Gigaom Change Stowe Boyd: Gigaom Change is a new event you're orchestrating. What was your motivation? Was there an itch you just couldn't scratch? Does the world need another tech conference? Byron Reese: Gigaom Change is something entirely new and different. There isn't another conference quite like it. It is based on the idea that a series of technologies are all converging on us at the same time, and they promise to a cataclysmic impact on the world.  The seven technologies we will be looking at are artificial intelligence, virtual reality/augmented reality, robotics, human-machine interfaces, nanotechnology, cybersecurity, and 3D printing. I have noticed that business leaders everywhere are having trouble keeping up with these technologies.  Everyone knows the high-level basic concepts, but this growing complexity is strangling corporate foresight and slowing business productivity. If you think about it, it is no surprise that these technologies are so overwhelming. Humanity has only faced real change three times in the past: When we got speech 100,000 years ago, when we developed agriculture 10,000 years ago, and when we invented writing 5000 years ago. We are literally going to witness the fourth major change, when our technologies upend our society and its institutions.  Business leaders need to understand how to use these new technologies. Continue reading at Gigaom. Virtual Reality Virtual Reality And A Parallel Universe Of Cyberclones   One of the biggest technology trends of 2015 was virtual reality (VR), from Oculus Rift to Google's cardboard headsets. TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 saw a lot of VR experiences where users could wear headsets and navigate an immersive 3D world. In Las Vegas, CES demonstrated a range of new gadgets and gaming experiences involving both VR and AR (augmented reality, e.g., Magic Leap). It is exciting to predict which killer app incorporating these technologies might become the next unicorn in 2016. But perhaps it is equally worthwhile to pause for a moment and ponder the implication of these technologies in the physical world, both in the near and distant future. Continue reading at Tech Crunch.  Artificial Intelligence MIT builds Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85% of Cyber Attacks What if we could Predict when a cyber attack is going to occur before it actually happens and prevent it? Isn't it revolutionary idea for Internet Security? Cyber security is a major challenge in today's world, as government agencies, corporations and individuals have increasingly become victims of cyber attacks that are so rapidly finding new ways to threaten the Internet that it's hard for good guys to keep up with them. A group of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are working with machine-learning startup PatternEx to develop a line of defense against such cyber threats. The team has already developed an Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85 percent of attacks by reviewing data from more than 3.6 Billion lines of log files each day and informs anything suspicious. The new system does not just rely on the artificial intelligence (AI), but also on human input, which researchers call Analyst Intuition (AI), which is why it has been given the name of Artificial Intelligence Squared or AI2.  Find more information at The Hacker News.  Cybersecurity Tech trends 2016: Cybersecurity in the connected world This year, cybersecurity will be the main issue vexing global business, firms say Allowing customers' data to be stolen by hackers is not good for business, firms are finally realising. It damages corporate reputations and erodes the public's "comfort with sharing their data", says Rashmi Knowles of cybersecurity company RSA. But the worrying news is that breaches are inevitable, warns Geoff Smith of Experis, while a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals is likely to push up the costs of beefing up defences and dealing with attacks. On top of this, new European data protection laws coming into effect in 2018 will see a "dramatic increase in fines" for data breaches, says James Mullock of law firm Bird and Bird, forcing firms to reassess their compliance procedures this year. Dedicated Data Protection Officers reporting to the board would be "a sensible measure", he says. Continue reading at BBC. Robotics This 3D Printer Makes Robots That Can Walk Away as Soon as They're Done Bringing the world one step closer to having real-life replicators like Star Trek promised, researchers at MIT's CSAIL lab have developed a new 3D printing technique that allows fully-functional robots to be created in a single print run. Add a motor and battery, and they're able to walk right out of the 3D printer. Typically, building something complex and animated with a 3D printer requires multiple print runs for all the various parts that then need to be assembled afterwards. The process is time consuming and about as far as one can get from a replicator that makes a mug full of piping hot Early Grey tea appear out of nowhere for Captain Picard to enjoy. Continue reading at Gizmodo. 3D Printing 5 Incredible Trends That Will Shape Our 3D Printed Future Self-repairing pipes. Printed organs. Bulletproof t-shirts. Seriously? In April I was asked to speak at the annual TED conference in Vancouver (following Bill Gates...gulp) on the topic of 3D printing production and its implications. I have detailed my thoughts on why the shift to 3D printing production is not only likely but inevitable in articles one, two and three in this series for Forbes. Now, let's take a step into a fascinating future, where daily life will be shaped by several powerful forces directly related to 3D printing production. What it will be like to live in a 3D-printed world? Imagine the effect of these five trends... Read the full interview at Forbes. Nanotechnology

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Structure News: Surge pricing for hybrid cloud strategies

Where, Believe It Or Not, We're Still Cloud Native May 13, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about some progress on Structure Security, the latest cutesy name in a long line of cutesy Google names, and two prominent tech companies that are finally kicking the tires on the public cloud. STRUCTURE NEWS We're working hard with our council of advisers getting plans in place for Structure Security, and we'll have a lot more information to share next week about our first trip into the world of security, including some new advisors and speakers. We're discovering a clear interest among professionals in the information security and technology worlds in finding better ways to work together, striking a balance between the relentless pressure of shipping product and the relentless pressure of playing defense against well-funded opponents. We're going to spend this summer examining these issues both here in the newsletter and elsewhere on the internets (stay tuned for more on that), and we welcome your feedback as we roll along. INDUSTRY NEWS TWITTER BARS INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES FROM USING ANALYTICS SERVICE The market value of Twitter the company ain't what it used to be, but the value of Twitter data -- especially for those who have firehose access -- has never been greater. Dataminr, a Twitter analytics company backed by Twitter and In-Q-Tel, cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from using its service at Twitter's request, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), although Techcrunch reported that the agencies were using the service as part of an unpaid pilot period that would have come to an end soon enough anyway. GOOGLE HAS OPEN-SOURCED SYNTAXNET, ITS AI FOR UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE Welcome “Parsey McParseface” to that ongoing tradition of “Oh, those wacky Googlers!” announcements. Following the release of TensorFlow last year, Wired reports that Google has open-sourced another artificial intelligence project called SyntaxNet, which aims to teach computers more sophisticated ways to understand text using an analysis tool that is actually called Parsey McParseface. THE CREATORS OF SIRI JUST SHOWED OFF THEIR NEXT AI ASSISTANT, VIV, AND IT’S INCREDIBLE So far, 2016 has been the year of AI and helpful friendly bots. Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, who you might remember from previous personal assistants such as Siri, have a new personal assistant called Viv that wowed the crowd at Techcrunch Disrupt, according to the Verge. Good demos are just that, good demos, but Viv bears watching given its pedigree. COREOS SECURES $28 MILLION IN SERIES B FUNDING LED BY GOOGLE’S VENTURE CAPITAL ARM You probably last saw Google and CoreOS together at Structure 2015, and they’re once again teaming up, in a way. ZDNet reports that Google Ventures led a $28 million Series B funding round in the container startup, which is building its container-management software on top of Google’s Kubernetes. SLACK WANTS TO HELP YOU SIGN INTO ALL YOUR OTHER OFFICE APPS Back when social media was just getting started, Facebook, Google, and Twitter all vied to provide sign-in capabilities to dozens of third-party apps and websites: Tinder still requires a Facebook login. Now Slack, the darling of the enterprise software world, is making a bid to provide similar capabilities for work-related apps, according to Recode. DOCKER ROLLS OUT TOOLS TO SCAN CONTAINERS FOR VULNERABILITIES One topic that has come up with nearly everyone we’ve talked to for Structure Security (as well as Structure 2016, for that matter) is container security, and Docker, the belle of the container ball, is paying attention to those concerns. eWeek reports that Docker Security Scanning -- once known as Project Nautilus -- is now generally available to Docker users and promises to simplify the process of scanning container images for vulnerabilities.   BIG PICTURE The cloud computing watchers who have been predicting the rise of the hybrid cloud strategy -- a little AWS action, a little self-managed datacenter action -- were awarded two more feathers in their caps this week with reports involving Uber and Salesforce.com, two of tech's most prominent companies. Salesforce is planning to build an internet of things cloud service on AWS, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), which would be the first time it has gotten cloudy with a company that it ostensibly competes with in a few areas. And The Information reports (subscription also required, but people, it's time to start subscribing to good stuff) Uber, the looming tech juggernaut of the post-iPhone era, is said to be considering all three major cloud providers for some infrastructure services despite its status as an outlier: a post-iPhone consumer company that built its own infrastructure. At one point, hybrid cloud was once considered a cop-out for scaredy cats under the spell of Big Server, too backward in their thinking to completely let go of their boxes. At a time when every CIO in the world is aware of the potential of the public cloud to help their IT strategy, it’s obvious that the market for public cloud infrastructure has a lot more room for growth. Yet as container strategies evolve and infrastructure-management tools evolve along with them, more and more companies will start to see the value of mixing infrastructure they alone control with the flexibility and ease of the public cloud for certain workloads. We think that one of the key questions of the maturing cloud computing market is the notion of “the datacenter tipping point,” or the idea that every startup that manages to become a webscale player on the back of public cloud infrastructure will start to consider the benefits of rolling their own. Sure, companies like Netflix and Pinterest are still great advertisements for the cloud-only lifestyle, but as cloud services become more complex, there’s something to be said for running your own boxes. Yet Salesforce and Uber remind us that it works both ways: just as cloud-native webscale companies consider managing their own infrastructure, companies that manage their own infrastructure can’t ignore the benefits of the public cloud. That’s good news for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and a host of other startups that provide services in their wake, and it’s evidence that notoriously conservative IT managers have realized they can loosen up a bit and direct their focus on the workloads that are most vital to their business.     DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.

Structure News: The long end of Moore's Law

Where We Consider Quantum Leap A Vastly Underrated Show May 6, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about some troubling security vulnerabilities, Detroit's sudden interest in cloud computing companies, and the search for the sequel to Moore's Law. STRUCTURE NEWS THE STRUCTURE SHOW: AWS EARNINGS, MEET DELL TECHNOLOGIES, AND OPENAI OPENS FOR BUSINESS This week on The Structure Show, Barb Darrow of Fortune and I talk about the first-quarter performance of Amazon Web Services, the bellwether cloud company that might just be a standard by which to measure the health of the tech industry in general in coming years. We’ll also check in on the progress of the world’s biggest merger ever, should it actually happen (which EMC's Joe Tucci and Dell's Michael Dell, pictured, really, really hope will happen). And we'll look at the first release from OpenAI, the joint project from Elon Musk and Sam Altman that is trying to compete with the big AI corporate research groups as a mom-and-pop outfit, although those are two very rich parents. INDUSTRY NEWS OPENSTACK AND THE FRAGMENTING INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET Reaction from last month's OpenStack Summit continues to trickle out now that everybody's home from Austin. This week Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk looks at how new projects like Mesos and Docker have created all kinds of new options for IT customers, and why that might present problems for OpenStack. EXCLUSIVE: BIG DATA BREACHES FOUND AT MAJOR EMAIL SERVICES - EXPERT You probably weren't the only person who sighed at a report from Reuters this week about a hack out of Russian that appeared to steal millions of email and password combinations from providers including Google and Yahoo. Don't freak out yet: Motherboard poured cold water on the report, suggesting that the hackers involved were making their heist look more damaging than it actually was, and noting that many of the email addresses were probably compromised long ago. IMAGEMAGICK VULNERABILITIES PLACE COUNTLESS WEBSITES AT RISK, ACTIVE EXPLOITATION CONFIRMED Ok, now you can freak out. Several security vulnerabilities were found this week in the widely used ImageMagick image manipulation tool, although fixes were quickly released according to CSO. And if that wasn't enough, Ars Technica notes that two important fixes were released for OpenSSL; security vulnerabilities in the "software supply chain" is something we'll definitely get into at Structure Security this September. WHITE HOUSE WANTS TO DISCUSS THE PROS AND CONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Unless the NSA has some amazing stuff under wraps, it seems like the most forward-looking research in artificial intelligence is taking place in the private sector. The White House Office of Science and Technology wants to make sure it stays on top of these developments with plans to host four public AI workshops, according to Fortune. ORACLE BUYS CLOUD-BASED SAAS VENDOR OPOWER FOR $532 MILLION Oracle continues to try and create a cloud story for itself through strategic acquisitions. ZDnet reports that it has picked up Opower, which provides utility management software as a cloud service, adding to the number of cloud services for vertical markets that have come under Oracle's umbrella in recent years. MICROSOFT AND FORD BACK PIVOTAL IN $253 MILLION ROUND AT $2.8 BILLION VALUATION If every major company is turning into a tech company, it makes sense to have tech expertise at an arm's length. Ford, which uses Pivotal Cloud Foundry to built a smartphone app that lets customers access their cars while mobile, invested $182 million into Pivotal this week as part of a $253 million funding round that values the cloud company at $2.8 billion, Venturebeat reported.   BIG PICTURE Predicting the coming end of Moore's Law is a time-honored tradition, like calling peak oil or vowing that this is the year for the Chicago Cubs. Yet someday all these things will happen, and we got a brief look this week at the future once Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's famous axiom passes into history. Moore's Law is, of course, not a "law," but rather an observation that became a challenge to double the number of features on a chip every 18 to 24 months. This trend changed the world over a 40-year period and has endured far longer than anybody, including Moore himself, might have thought, but The New York Times reported this week that the Semiconductor Industry Association is going to stop forecasting a chip roadmap based on Moore's Law. Instead, a separate group, the IEEE plans to start looking at alternatives to Moore's Law for charting the pace of advancement in technology. For a variety of reasons, it has become too difficult to make chips smaller, faster, and cheaper, a process that has been the engine of the tech economy since Richard Nixon was president. And the rise of cloud services mean that our individual machines don't require nearly as much processing power, although those cloud services themselves are of course still hungry for advances in computing power. So what comes next? IBM offered a glimpse this week of how quantum computing could be delivered via cloud services, as noted by Wired. Quantum computing is still a mythical creature and won't be a real option for computing for years, if not decades, but the idea that we could create more powerful computers by using building blocks that are capable of multiple states beyond "on" or "off" is getting serious traction inside the world's leading computing research facilities. It's kind of amazing that despite all that's happened in technology over the years since Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel, the transistor has remained the basic building block of computing. Pretty soon, something else will need to take its place, and whoever harnesses quantum computing (or something else) will take their place in computing history right alongside the 87-year-old Moore.     DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. 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