This Quick Start deploys a hybrid architecture that integrates on-premises Hadoop clusters with a data lake environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The deployment takes about 15 minutes and includes WANdisco Fusion, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Athena, and supports cloud migration and burst-out processing scenarios.
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Ed Gets Bollocked By The PM
Tricky moment at this week’s Cabinet,” Ed confides to his diary, “right at the end of the meeting the PM fixed me with a robotic eye and asks: “Are we world leader in driverless cars?” “Up to a point Prime Minister . . .” I begin. “What point?” asks the PM, robotic eye a steely …
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CEVA licenses vision chip to Nextchip
CEVA licenses its XM4 imaging and vision platform to Nextchip for its Apache4 vision-based pre-processor.
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Intel plans to double in value by 2021
Intel’s CFO Bob Swan has a plan to double Intel’s market cap to $300 billion and double its eps from $2.21 to $4 by 2021, reports The Oregonian. Datacentre and memory are the areas which will propel this growth, according to Swan. The growth in market cap will also be driven by constant cost-cutting. The …
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Laptop key frustration
In trying to go the extra mile – putting extra memory under the keyboard of a laptop I was giving to someone – I managed to flip a key-top off. Unfortunately, one of the three parts under the key-top came out too. Oh my word. There followed one and half hours with tweezers, any number …
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Korea to invest $46bn in ICs and displays by 2024
Korea will invest $45.8 billion in chip and display manufacturing by 2024, reports The Korea Herald. Eleven CEOs of chip and display manufacturing companies, including Kwon Oh-hyun, vice chairman and CEO of the device solutions business of Samsung Electronics, Park Sung-woo, chairman and CEO of Hynix recently met Paik Un-gyu, Korea’s minister of trade, industry …
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Confusion and resistance hits UK smart meter plan, says new report
Lack of consumer engagement, insufficient information is slowing down the UK’s £11bn energy smart meter roll-out, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Sussex. The government plans to install smart meters in every home by 2020 to reduce national household energy consumption by 5-15%, and thereby help meet the UK’s climate …
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Plastic Logic strengthens ties with E Ink for flexible displays
E Ink Holdings, the Taiwan-based electronic ink printing technology firm, is continuing its partnership and supply deal with Plastic Logic, the Germany-based manufacturer of flexible electrophoretic displays (EPDs). E Ink and Plastic Logic have been cooperating to develop the EPD market for more than 10 years. Johnson Lee, President of E Ink Holdings, writes: “One …
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Announcing enhancements to the Amazon Lex test console
Building your chatbot in the Amazon Lex console takes just a few steps, and now enhancements to the test console provide more details, for easy troubleshooting. The test console dynamically displays information related to dialog state as you interact with your bot. In the “Summary” view, you can review the slot values for the intent being fulfilled. This allows you to keep track of the conversation flow. In the “Detail” view, you can review the parsed response from the chatbot. The response detail gives you deeper visibility into the bot interaction and the current state of the dialog as you troubleshoot and debug your chatbot.