Microsofts Azure cloud is slowly catching up with Amazons AWS in terms of growth year on year.
Humanoid rights?
‘One day the AIs are going to look back at us the same way we look back at the fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa’
EC2 P3 Oh…(Starwars pun)
Amazon AWS has introduced its P3 instances for EC2, super-charging machine learning for businesses running the AWS cloud platform.
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/iaas/7138/aws-unveils-p3-instances-for-faster-machine-learning
Enter Ripley!
Robotics engineers are finally using nature to design a more user friendly robot… that can lift 1000 lbs or a mug!
Bad Rabbit Ransomware
A varient of Notpetya called Bad Rabbit is sweeping Russia and neighbouring countries encrypting files. It masks itself as an Adobe flash update so don’t click on any executable files you think might be dodgy.
Azure Cray Super Computers
Microsoft have teamed up with Cray to start to offer super computers on the Azure Cloud.
Faster internet at peak times
Scientists at Cambridge university have developed a way to allow more “bandwidth” down fibre optic cables to stop the slowdown during preak times.
Hopefully it wont be too long before we see it put into production.
Would you like to play a game?
Sometimes the only way to win is not to play…
Especially when you’re gaming with bots!
https://www.inverse.com/article/37551-elon-musk-s-a-i-just-destroyed-the-world-s-best-video-gamers
Go Zero
Google’s program ‘Alpha Go’ powered by Deepmind AI that beat the worlds best Go player has been beaten by the new Alpha Go Zero!
Neuromorphic chips out by end of the year!
Intel say they will release the world’s first Neuromorphic chip by the end of the year!
I wonder if this will also follow Moores law…
IBM goes around the block…chain
IBM is now using blockchain technology to approve financial transactions.
Wifi hacked!
It’s taken 17 years, but the Wifi encryption method WPA2 used by most routers (as it’s the most secure) has been hacked.
More details will be revealed later but it looks like your home wifi will need to be patched once the flaw is fixed, if it ever is.
The Quantum Internet
What will it take to build the next superfast internet to network all those future quantum computers? The Quantum Internet (QNet) of course!
Renewable Google
Google will run on 100% renewable energy this year! Go green Google!
Brex IT
Box EMEA chief assures us that Brexit won’t leave the UK with a shortage of IT professionals.
In this day and age of remote VPN access you can have IT professionals working for you from anywhere…
Flying Horse Taxis
Nvidias new AI super computer Pegasus has been designed to be used in level 5 autonomous taxis which require no human intervention.
AWS helps UK Gov
The UK Gov will be using AWS for its law enforcement data platform.
Keep in mind ethics for AI
Google’s sister company Deepmind has setup an ethics committee for AI.
NFS for Azure
Netapp and Microsoft have teamed up to offer Network File System (NFS) which is delivered natively in Azure
Code breaking history
Bletchley Park has been recognised as a key part of Englands scientific history. I’m quite surprised it wasn’t already but it’s good news that it is now.
Autonomous ships?
Google has teamed up with Rolls Royce to use AI to create autonomous ships.
London’s largest data centre campus
London is about to get its largest data centre campus as Virtus reveals their plans.