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Can We Have Conscious Artificial Intelligence And Other Mind-Blowing Things Science Can’t Answer

What are the limits of human knowledge? Or is that something we cannot know? This is the question pondered by Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, mathematician, broadcaster and author Marcus du Sautoy in his book, What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge. I recently had the pleasure of […]
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Lattice’s New Certus-NX FPGAs Bring New Meaning To Low Power And Fast Execution

Lattice Semiconductor Certus-NX Lattice Semiconductor I have written extensively about Lattice’s FPGAs including the CrossLinkPlus and MachXO3D FPGAs, and how the company has reinvented itself and is positioning itself as the leader in low power FPGAs. Because of the flexibility of FPGAs in general, they tend to be capable of addressing many different markets simultaneously, […]
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Augmented Reality And Real Food: Where Potential Meets Practice

Augmented reality in a food production environment. Getty Images On May 5, CBS News reported that nearly 145 field employees for the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service were absent from work due to exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Despite the proliferation of digital technologies and instant communication, face-to-face meetings, inspections, and consultations were still a […]
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Why Cybersecurity Is Really A Business Problem

Getty Bottom Line: Absolute’s 2020 Endpoint Resilience Report illustrates why the purpose of any cybersecurity program needs to be attaining a balance between protecting an organization and the need to keep the business running, starting with secured endpoints. Enterprises who’ve taken a blank-check approach in the past to spending on cybersecurity are facing the stark […]
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A CEO’s View Of How The Network Saved Us During The Coronavirus

The network is saving us during Covid. Getty The network that enables the digital world is its backbone. While most humanmade systems around the world were failing during the coronavirus, digital business systems have been delivering us through it.   The network is the unsung hero of the digital present and our future. It’s the network […]
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Fintech Startup That Raised $100 Million From Investors Bessemer And Coatue Is Abruptly Shutting Down

CEO Kurt Rathmann says ScaleFactor lost 50% of its revenue as a result of Covid-19. ScaleFactor By the end of last year, software startup ScaleFactor had emerged as a buzzy financial services company, raising $100 million in 12 months from big-name investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue Management. But in March, that upward trajectory […]
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HPE Greenlake And Qumulo SHIFT Provide Expanded Cloud Capability

Companies readying themselves to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic are looking to use cloud-based tools to expand their virtual market reach and enable remote work, while controlling costs.  This piece discusses new announcements from HPE and Qumulo to accelerate this digital transformation. At its HPE Discover virtual event HPE announced its Greenlake effort to provide cloud-like […]
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These Young Entrepreneurs Have A Plan To Bring The Internet To Detroit, The Least Connected City In America

Of the many cascading consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, one is the deepening digital divide between those who can readily pay for and access the Internet, and those who can’t. With Americans sheltering in place and working from home, households that have immediate access to the World Wide Web have an obvious advantage: they can […]
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Microsoft Acquires CyberX To Boost IoT Deployments

Microsoft said it’s acquiring CyberX, a cybersecurity start-up that focuses on detecting, stopping, and predicting security breaches on the internet of things networks. Various reports mention that the acquisition could be around $165 million. With this acquisition, Microsft adds one more component to its Azure IoT security capabilities. “CyberX will complement the existing Azure IoT security capabilities and extends to existing […]
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NCino, Cloud-Based Financial Services Firm, Aims To Raise $100 Million In IPO

nCino, a cloud-based financial services firm, has filed for a public offering. Getty Images Two months after the Covid-19 pandemic froze the IPO market, financial services software company NCino has filed for a public offering. The Wilmington, North Carolina-based startup is seeking to raise $100 million in an IPO, it announced Monday. A regulatory filing […]
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Google Anthos Simplifies Synch For Multi-Cloud Implementations

As regulators are moving to requiring multi-cloud configurations, Temenos is working with Google to use Google Anthos to synch its banking software across multiple clouds or a cloud and an on-prem implementation. Multi-cloud has two big drivers, said Tony Coleman, director of technology at Temenos. “Regulation, and concern over concentration risk. Regulators are nervous that […]
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