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Microsoft Azure Synapse Starts Performance Benchmark Race With Amazon RedShift and Google BigQuery

Microsoft claims its newly announced Azure Synapse Analytics service is four times faster than Amazon Redshift and 75 times faster than Google BigQuery. This announcement...

AWS Lake Formation Takes Pain Out of Data Lakes

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier for users to set up and manage data lakes. But organizations will face challenges in determining how to derive value from their data lakes.

SAS Looks to Leverage AI to Feed the World

SAS is creating a new agricultural technology business unit and has partnered with the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative to help next-generation farmers and...

KPMG Ignite – the Swiss Army Knife of AI?

I recently had an opportunity to speak with a KPMG partner in the Canadian risk consulting practice and with the head of data science for Canada about several things,...

Google Founders Are Stepping Down

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as CEO and President of Alphabet, respectively. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over as Alphabet’s CEO. Both...

Cloudera Takes Steps Towards Open Standards for DataOps

DataOps is a complex topic. Industry leaders such as LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Uber have created their own operations platforms. Without open standards currently in place,...

Amnesty International Calls Google and Facebook a Threat to Human Rights

We recently covered Google’s lackadaisical approach to data privacy in the context of its partnership with Ascension, a US healthcare giant. Last month, Google was under...

Google and IBM Are Calling for AI Regulation

Last week, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, called for new AI regulations. The next day, IBM called for rules to eliminate AI biases that can discriminate against consumers,...

AWS Data Exchange: Bringing Third-Party Data to Amazon’s Cloud

Amazon recently announced its new “AWS Data Exchange” service – users of large repositories of third-party data rejoice! With Data Exchange, AWS customers will be able to...

Clearview AI Demonstrates the Dangers of Facial Recognition

Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are in the news again. This time, it is Clearview AI, a small company that until recently was virtually unknown to everyone except...
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