Archives for August, 2019 - Page 4


VMware recently announced its acquisition plans for cloud firm Pivotal and security vendor Carbon Black, two deals that will cost the company USD 4.8 billion. According to VMware, the company is going to spend $2.7 billion on Pivotal and about $ 2.1 billion for Carbon Black. Both deal amounts are based on the enterprise value…
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VMware recently announced its acquisition plans for cloud firm Pivotal and security vendor Carbon Black, two deals that will cost the company USD 4.8 billion. According to VMware, the company is going to spend $2.7 billion on Pivotal and about $ 2.1 billion for Carbon Black. Both deal amounts are based on the enterprise value…
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The U.S. government intends to run a program that centres around securing voter enrolment databases and IT systems ahead of the 2020 presidential race. Intelligence authorities are worried that state-sponsored hackers in 2020 may not only target the electoral databases but also endeavour to control, manipulate and destroy data, as indicated by U.S. authorities. “It…
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In our previous articles, we have talked about Time Series Forecasting and Recurrent Neural Network. We explored what it is and how it is important in the class of Machine Learning algorithms. We even implemented a simple LSTM Network to evaluate its performance on the MNIST dataset. In this tutorial, we will take it a…
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Analytics industry has witnessed significant growth over the years but is still prone to a lot of challenges in terms of talent, reaching the right consumers, cumulating data points, among others. This month we reached out to the analytics leaders to understand the challenges that they most often face in the industry. We asked them…
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In an increasingly digital world, the rise of artificial intelligence is pervasive in almost all spheres of human activity. AI in simple terms is the use of intelligent machines to work and react like humans. We see many examples of AI in daily lives such as facial recognition in passport control, voice recognition in virtual…
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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has launched four programmes, including a Master’s course in Data Science. These programmes were introduced by IIT-G to address the rising demand by the students. These courses which begin from the current academic session 2019-20. The institute has also launched three new programmes in association with Gifu University, Japan.…
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From January 2020, Python 2.x branch will no longer be supported by its creators and will see no new major releases, bug fixes, or security updates. It seemed like the developer community had a lot of time when Guido van Rossum in 2014 made the announcement. But finally, it is becoming a reality and the…
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C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), a national premier R&D organisation under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, and Atos, a noted digital transformation company, today announced that they have signed a Cooperation Agreement for technology advancement in the areas of quantum computing, artificial intelligence and exascale computing. Hemant Darbari, Founder…
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India under the regime of former finance minister and late Arun Jaitley saw one of the most fast-paced growth in usage and adoption of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics and internet of things in the public as well as the private sector. Jaitley, who passed away on 24 August, spearheaded the…
The post RIP Arun Jaitley: From Powering Digital India To Investing In AI, The Former FinMin Spearheaded Our Tech Transformation appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.

