The Booming Biometrics Industry: Will Cash Become Obsolete?
The biometrics industry is projected to grow by over $US 24 billion during the 2019-2013 time period, according to a study by Technavio. Based on the same study, much of…
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Ten Ways The C-Suite Can Protect Their Company Against Cyberattack
Cyberattacks are one of the top 10 global risks of highest concern in the next decade, with an estimated price tag of $90 trillion if cybersecurity efforts do not keep pace with…
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WeWork Debacle Exposes Why Investing In A Charismatic Founder Can Be Dangerous
WeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth just $8 billion in a matter of months. It did so…
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Android Dev Summit 2019 | The Digital Wellbeing Opportunity
Android Dev Summit 2019 | The Digital Wellbeing Opportunity The talk highlights the challenges and opportunities app developers face with respect to how their products may impact user wellbeing. In…
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How Linux Came To The Mainframe
Linux’s emergence on the mainframe is indebted to the external developer community working with IBM. Despite my 15 years of experience in the Linux infrastructure space, if you had asked…
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More Wrong Answers Get Quantum Computers To Find The Right One
In quantum computers, generating more errors in a given operation may help reveal the right answer, according to new research. Unlike conventional computers, the processing in quantum-based machines is noisy,…
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Did We Really Achieve Quantum Supremacy?
Google recently revealed a quantum computer which they claim can solve in minutes what a problem a present-day supercomputer would need thousands of years to solve. They published their findings…
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5 Milestones That Created The Internet, 50 Years After The First Network Message
Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard…
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Ubuntu 19.10 Delivers Kubernetes At The Edge, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Economics And An Integrated AI/ML Developer Experience
Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 last 17 October 2019 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME…
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Teletext Was Slow But It Paved The Way For The Super-Fast World Of The Internet
The BBC has announced that 2020 will mark the end of the Red Button text service – the final incarnation of what was originally known as CEEFAX and Oracle. Those…
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