Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Apple and Facebook have entered an all-out Cold War in the name of consumer data privacy. The battle started when Apple announced it will soon require users to opt in to personal data tracking. Facebook, which makes money from that […]
GitGuardian data reveals 20% rise in ‘secrets’ hidden in public GitHub repos
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. GitGuardian, a cybersecurity platform that helps companies find sensitive data hidden in code, has revealed that it found more than 2 million “secrets” in public GitHub repositories in 2020, a 20% increase on the previous year. Founded out of Paris […]
NPD January Data Reveals Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Is January's Best-Selling Game
The January 2021 U.S NPD data has been revealed by industry analyst Mat Piscatella and shows a stark increase in revenue in the gaming space compared to this time last year. The latest findings also reveal that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War continues its best-selling game streak since November, effectively ranking it in the […]
Cloud data analytics service Phocas raises $34 million to grow AI, global footprint
Phocas Software‘s cloud data analytics tools might be best known in Australia, where they’re used by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Fiskars Royal Doulton, and Burson Automotive to streamline employee access to key financial data, but the company is planning to become more aggressive globally in 2021. Today, Phocas announced that it raised $34 million to bolster […]
Recognizing data points that signal trends for the future of business post-pandemic
Planning for a post-COVID-19 future and creating a robust enterprise strategy require both strategic scenario planning and the ability to recognize what scenario planners call “news from the future” — data points that tell you whether the world is trending in the direction of one or another of your imagined scenarios. As with any scatter […]
China proposes global data security standards
(Reuters) — China announced an initiative on Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when “individual countries” were “bullying” others and “hunting” companies. The announcement, by State Councillor Wang Yi, comes a month after the United States said it was purging “untrusted” […]
Grand Theft Auto 5 Online Dataminers Have Uncovered A Secret UFO Mission
Grand Theft Auto V is a game with many paranormal and alien secrets, and more continue to come to its Online mode over time. A group of dataminers have found evidence of a new alien spacecraft in the game, and activated a mission that has been added to the game’s files but is not properly […]
Data Miners Leak Unreleased Apex Legends Season 6 Skins
Some new skins are set to arrive later in Season 6 of Apex Legends, according to data miners. Season 6: Boosted has arrived in Apex Legends, along with a new Legend, a new gun, and an updated World’s Edge map. It’s also reportedly bringing two new Heirlooms for both Bangalore and Caustic. Data miners have […]
Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI
Facebook piloted a text-based fantasy role-playing game to improve the conversational models powering things like its chatbots and smart speakers. In a preprint paper, researchers at the company describe a game that iterates between collecting data and retraining models on the collected data, with a metric that evaluates and compares models using players’ continuation rates […]
Setting your data science team up for success: 3 critical considerations
Presented by Anaconda In 2012, “data scientist” was famously deemed the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” with anticipation that the demand for talent would quickly outpace supply. Organizations raced to add “data-driven” to their mission statements, and data scientists found themselves at the center of talent bidding wars, commanding formidable salaries that further fanned […]