Category: System Software

November 25, 2020

With all the attacks in the news recently, can you take steps to protect workstations that you already have and might not have enabled? Yes, and most of the steps are built into the operating system you already have. Windows […]

November 13, 2020

Congratulations! You got a new computer. If it’s your work computer, your IT department probably installed all the business applications you need on it. But it doesn’t have any of your files on it; those are still on your old […]

November 13, 2020

As businesses grapple with the pandemic, millions of workers are no longer working in the traditional office behind the traditional perimeter. They are working from home, accessing data and network resources using unauthorized devices, unauthorized software and unsecured WiFi. Research […]

November 10, 2020

Healthcare has once again fallen under the spotlight, given the current global situation. Medical science has undoubtedly improved rapidly, extending life expectancy across the globe. But as people live longer, medical systems are witnessing vast growth in demand for services, […]

November 10, 2020

Google has open-sourced Performer, a Transformer deep-learning architecture that scales linearly with input sequence length. This allows Performer to be used for tasks that require long sequences, including pixel-prediction and protein sequence modeling. A team from Google Research described the […]

October 28, 2020

Encouraged by the spate of antitrust activity brewing in both the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill, Apple may be developing a search competitor to Google, according to a report in the Financial Times. That would be a move ripe […]

October 20, 2020

Machine learning is an important part of modern application development, replacing much of what used to be done using a complex series of rules engines, and expanding coverage to a much wider set of problems. Services like Azure’s Cognitive Services […]

October 13, 2020

Digital transformation is increasing the urgency to re-skill or up-skill employees to thrive in a rapidly evolving workplace. But professional development programs are often left behind in technology-driven transformation initiatives. Now, however, organizations are discovering the use of virtual reality […]

October 6, 2020

Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and textual analysis, image processing and all kinds of diagnosis and recognition systems. In many cases, AI can surpass […]

October 5, 2020

Alexa, amazon’s voice-based virtual assistance like Siri for the iPhone, and Cortana for Microsoft Windows, is a cloud-based service. When first introduced, it was in the form of ‘Amazon Echo.’ Fast forward and this voice assistant is now part of […]