In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, explores the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Dr. Oliphant shares his journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.
In this contributed article, technical leader Kamala Manju Kesavan believes it is essential to periodically reassess your database strategy to ensure that it continues to meet your organization's evolving requirements. If migrating to another database solution is deemed necessary, approach the process methodically, leveraging best practices and stakeholder collaboration to maximize success and drive business value.
In this contributed article, George Davis, founder and CEO of Frame AI, howlights how we find ourselves at an early, crucial stage in the AI R&D lifecycle. Excitement over AI’s potential is dragging it into commercial development well before reliable engineering practices have been established. Architectural patterns like RAG are essential in moving from theoretical models to deployable solutions.
Voice security firm Hiya said that nuisance calls dropped in the fourth quarter, but Americans saw one of the lowest rates of fraud calls globally in the quarter.
Apple's discussions with China Mobile about bringing the popular handset to the world's largest mobile market is the stuff of tech journalists' dreams. The potential deal would join together the world's largest mobile service provider with the planet's most talked-about phone. Both companies are tight-lipped, offering us nothing more than confirmations of the talks and statements that indicate that the two sides want to make a deal.
Koryolink, the operator of North Korea's only 3G cellular network, saw a big jump in subscribers during the third quarter as its network was expanded to cover more of the country.
China is now requiring people setting up new mobile phone accounts to register with their real identities as part of a new government measure to reduce anonymity among the country's 800 million mobile users.
In early June 2010 security pro Chet Uber got a phone call from Adrian Lamo, a well-known hacker he had worked with for a year in a volunteer-run intelligence organization. Lamo had received classified documents from a U.S. Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning and wanted advice about what to do. Uber told Lamo to turn Manning in.
Microsoft may be looking to add to its existing patent infringement case related to the use of Google's Android mobile phone software by targeting phone makers in Taiwan, according to a Chinese-language news report.
Almost all the feedback to a European Commission consultation on net neutrality stressed the importance of preserving an open Internet, but stopped short of calling for minimum quality-of-service rules.
Motorola's mobile phone subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the world's largest software maker has infringed 16 of its patents in PC, mobile and server software, as well as Xbox products.
San Francisco is close to passing a bill that would require cell phone retailers to clearly mark how much radiation is emitted by the phones they sell.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Tuesday announced some major changes in the company's entertainment and mobile device businesses. Veteran Robbie Balch, who oversaw a combined group, is retiring and won't be replaced.
When wireless charging systems for smartphones and other gadgets first came on the scene a couple of years ago, they were cool in concept but rather clumsy in practice. The idea was that instead of plugging your phone into a charger, you could simply toss the phone onto a mat from the likes of Powermat or Pure Energy Solutions to charge it.
The Symbian Foundation, which recently lost its respected executive director and the backing of two major phone makers, is getting a much-needed boost through a European Commission-sponsored project.
A growing number of mobile operators are rolling out HD voice in their networks, allowing customers with compatible phones to make calls with better voice quality. The operators have been encouraged to invest in the technology by an increase in the number of compatible phone models, according to a report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
When you're on a business trip, running errands or on vacation, you probably don't have the same access to a computer as you do during the workday. But if you tweet on the go or like to keep up with your Twitter followers outside of work, mobile access to Twitter is essential.
Lawyers and CFOs appear to be laggards when it comes to using social media for marketing and promoting their expertise. Some think it is beneath them. Some think the leads and contacts they’ll get will be of little or no value. Most are just too busy to do the research and find out the truth: that marketing and presenting ideas in this way can generate strong leads and promote a professional as a subject matter expert in their field. Gone are the days when brand-building alone was the essential measure o
If your wireless bill spiked by more than $18,000 one month, would you think that was a "trivial" issue? Of course, not. But the big telcos and their conservative allies are trying to stop the FCC from putting rules in place that will make wireless bill shock a much less common occurrence.
Microsoft needed to take risks and make a mobile splash in order to remake its image as a technology leader, but instead displayed ineptness in the unveiling of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) today.
The company that owned the trademark "i-phone" in China yielded it to Apple, the Web site of China's trademark office shows, removing what could have become a legal roadblock for the similarly named iPhone there.
Microsoft's efforts to become relevant in a smartphone market dominated by rivals such as Apple and Google appear to paying off: Windows Phone 7 sales have topped 1.5 million since they began early last month.