Microsoft Azure Search will now be known as Azure Cognitive Search to signify the next wave of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. According to Microsoft, the first wave of AI was built for narrow apps, or training a single mode for a specific task. “What’s been challenging, however, is that these models individually can’t capture … continue reading
Fugue announced a free tier for Fugue Developer, which provides automation tools to visualize cloud infrastructure, identify misconfiguration risks, and demonstrate compliance “The cloud upended traditional IT security, forcing hard tradeoffs between agility and security,” said Phillip Merrick, CEO of Fugue. “Fugue Developer puts cloud security in the hands of the software developers building and … continue reading
The LF AI Foundation announced the Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX) is its newest graduate level project. ONNX provides AI capabilities like model creation and export, visualization, optimization, and acceleration capabilities. “ONNX will retain its existing OSI-approved open source license, its governance structure and their established development practices,” said Ibrahim Haddad, executive director of the … continue reading
Brave launched its new browser designed to offer users a fast browsing experience, while funding the Web through a new attention-based platform of privacy-preserving advertisements and rewards. Brave’s private ads and payment platform (Brave Rewards) is now available for iPhones and iPads in addition to desktops and Android devices. “Either we all accept the $330 … continue reading
Microsoft is continuing to announce new tools and updates for developers and enterprises at its annual conference Microsoft Ignite. The company revealed a new version of its programming language TypeScript, a public preview of Visual Studio Online and new AI-based features. TypeScript 3.7 is now available Microsoft’s superset of JavaScript has reached its latest version. … continue reading
Neo4j announced Neo4j AuraTM, a fully-managed database as a service. Neo4j Aura enables developers, architects and data scientists to deploy, scale and power connected data applications in the cloud. According to the company, it requires no administration, and features simple pricing, always-on availability, on-demand scaling, guaranteed data durability, built in authentication and end-to-end data encryption. … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation announced that the machine learning library Apache SINGA is now a top-level project. The project, which started out at the National University of Singapore, trains large-scale machine learning models over a cluster of machines. The developers behind the project are currently working on SINGA-lite for deep learning on edge devices with … continue reading
Misty Robotics released the Misty II platform robot to provide developers with the tools, comprehensive documentation and extensive to build robotic capabilities for businesses and homes, research and education. “For the price of a computer, developers can bring their code to life and free it from the 2D world of a browser. We’ve already seen … continue reading
In its latest release of Red Hat Process Automation, Red Hat added new applied AI capabilities that will enable predictive modeling. The company also added support for the development of process- and decision-based business applications through micro-frontend architectures. Red Hat Process Automation is a toolset that enables customers to intelligently automate their business decisions and … continue reading
Google is bringing its open-source platform for machine learning to the enterprise. According to the company, enterprises that want to use TensorFlow struggle because of the higher demands and expectations they have for running ML workloads. TensorFlow Enterprise will feature enterprise-grade support, cloud scale performance and managed services. “Together, these services and products can accelerate … continue reading
The international standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) announced that it has begun working on defining artificial intelligence standards. These standards will be designed to help “accelerate and improve the creation of useful AI applications,” OMG explained. “When a technology area reaches a certain degree of maturity, standards enable innovation, rather than impede it,” said … continue reading
Gartner revealed its top 10 strategic technology trends for the next year at its IT Symposium/Xpo 2019 conference in Orlando. According to the company, a strategic technology trend is one that has the potential to disrupt the industry and break out into broader impact and use. Unlike last year’s trends, this year’s trend does not … continue reading