Is that you or a virtual you? Are chatbots too real?
In a recent episode of HBO's TV show, Silicon Valley, Pied Piper network engineer Bertram Gilfoyle (played by actor Martin Starr), creates a chatbot he calls "Son of Anton," [...]
3 cloud security ‘hacks’ to consider today
Are you the cloud security person, or cloudsec/cloudops, as it’s often called? The person who controls the cloud deployment, including all security such as IAM (identity and access management), [...]
Microsoft readies new language for safe programming
Microsoft has found that approximately 70 percent of the security vulnerabilities it addresses are due to memory safety issues. To make it easier to write safer code, the company [...]
Open Repos provides code metrics on open source projects
GitClear, maker of a toolkit for generating software project performance metrics, has publicly released Open Repos, a free tool to make it easier for contributors to participate in open [...]
How IBM plans to compete in the cloud
IBM has been pushing hard on being a competitive threat in enterprise cloud, but is far behind the leaders like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It’s latest [...]
Good tech talent is still hard to find (how to bridge the gap)
In today’s era of digital business, companies are intoxicated by the potential of technology-driven transformation. Manufacturers eye the internet of things (IoT) as a springboard for predictive maintenance and [...]
Simplifying data management in the cloud
Let’s face it. We’re painting ourselves into a corner given the number of special-purpose, cloud-native databases we’re placing into production. This without regard to how we should be using [...]
Babylon.js: Going beyond the 2D Web
The Web has moved on a long way since we started to wave goodbye to Flash. Much of what we could do in animation plug-ins is now native to [...]
Popular software development service GitHub was just purchased by software giant Microsoft.
Companies and developers began to massively transfer their projects and repositories from the GitHub portal to Git-Lab after reports of Microsoft purchasing the project hosting website. According to the [...]
iOS 12 announced at the WWDC 2018
Developers improved performance, and also updated many components of the operating system iOS. At the WWDC 2018 conference, Apple introduced a new version of the iOS operating system. The twelfth [...]