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Month: <span>October 2017</span>

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Microsoft slowly catching up to Amazon

Microsofts Azure cloud is slowly catching up with Amazons AWS in terms of growth year on year.
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/iaas/7142/microsoft-cloud-growth-closes-gap-on-aws
Fiona Shalliker 31st October 2017 NEWS

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’

 

http://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/37872/1/sophia-the-robot-has-become-the-first-humanoid-citizen?utm_campaign=RSSFeed&utm_medium=Link&utm_source=Link&utm_term=sophia-the-robot-has-become-the-first-humanoid-citizen

 

Fiona Shalliker 30th October 2017 NEWS

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

Fiona Shalliker 27th October 2017 NEWS

Enter Ripley!

Robotics engineers are finally using nature to design a more user friendly robot… that can lift 1000 lbs or a mug!

 

https://www.wired.com/story/the-guardian-gt/amp

Fiona Shalliker 26th October 2017 NEWS

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.
http://www.techradar.com/news/bad-rabbit-ransomware-is-a-worrying-new-threat-spreading-across-europe
Fiona Shalliker 25th October 2017 NEWS

Azure Cray Super Computers

Microsoft have teamed up with Cray to start to offer super computers on the Azure Cloud.
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/private-cloud/7129/cray-and-microsoft-bring-supercomputing-to-azure
Fiona Shalliker 24th October 2017 NEWS

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.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3019657/scientists-develop-a-tech-to-crush-slow-peak-time-internet-speeds
Fiona Shalliker 23rd October 2017 NEWS

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

Fiona Shalliker 20th October 2017 NEWS

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!

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3019507/googles-deepmind-learns-by-itself-as-alphago-zero-beats-its-predecessor

Fiona Shalliker 19th October 2017 NEWS

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…
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3019353/intels-nervana-ai-chips-take-aim-at-nvidia-gpus
Fiona Shalliker 18th October 2017 NEWS

IBM goes around the block…chain

IBM is now using blockchain technology to approve financial transactions.
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/finance/7110/ibm-wants-to-speed-up-global-payments-with-blockchain
Fiona Shalliker 17th October 2017 NEWS

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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41635516
Fiona Shalliker 16th October 2017 NEWS

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!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41570933
Fiona Shalliker 13th October 2017 NEWS

Renewable Google

Google will run on 100% renewable energy this year! Go green Google!

 

http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/7101/google-cloud-will-run-on-100-renewable-energy-this-year

 

Fiona Shalliker 12th October 2017 NEWS

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…
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/collaboration/7100/box-brexit-wont-impact-uk-access-to-tech-skills
Fiona Shalliker 11th October 2017 NEWS

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.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3018880/nvidias-pegasus-is-the-worlds-first-ai-supercomputer-for-fully-autonomous-robotaxis
Fiona Shalliker 10th October 2017 NEWS

AWS helps UK Gov

The UK Gov will be using AWS for its law enforcement data platform.
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/7097/aws-eu-region-to-provide-support-services-for-uk-law-enforcement
Fiona Shalliker 9th October 2017 NEWS

Keep in mind ethics for AI

Google’s sister company Deepmind has setup an ethics committee for AI.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3018665/deepmind-launches-ethics-unit-to-deal-with-the-big-questions-of-ai

Fiona Shalliker 6th October 2017 NEWS

NFS for Azure

Netapp and Microsoft have teamed up to offer Network File System (NFS) which is delivered natively in Azure

http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/7090/microsoft-and-netapp-launch-enterprise-nfs-service

Fiona Shalliker 5th October 2017 NEWS

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.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3018580/milton-keynes-bletchley-park-recognised-as-a-key-part-of-englands-scientific-past
Fiona Shalliker 4th October 2017 NEWS

Autonomous ships?

Google has teamed up with Rolls Royce to use AI to create autonomous ships.
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/business-intelligence/7083/rolls-royce-teams-up-with-google-on-autonomous-ships
Fiona Shalliker 3rd October 2017 NEWS

London’s largest data centre campus

London is about to get its largest data centre campus as Virtus reveals their plans.
https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2017/sep/29/virtus-reveals-plans-londons-largest-data-centre-campus/
Fiona Shalliker 2nd October 2017 NEWS

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