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Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery
Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of proteins and enzymes that have evolved on Earth over the past 4 billion years, human knowledge barely sc Read more…
The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
ARPA-H Taps Duality’s Homomorphic Encryption for Rare Disease Research
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in September awarded Duality Technologies a contract worth up to $6 million to develop a framework for enabling healthcare organizations to share highly sensitive Read more…
Polars Gets GPU Support as Cloud Version Nears Launch
A new speedy DataFrame library called Polars is starting to turn heads in the data science community thanks to its performance and adoption rate. The open source project, which provides a multithreaded, vectorized query Read more…
Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?
A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…
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Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI
With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…
Cloudian Partners with Lenovo for EPYC All-Flash ‘HyperStore’
Cloudian and Lenovo today announced they’re teaming up to deliver a new HyperStore cluster designed to run big data, AI, and HPC workloads. Each HyperStore cluster will be composed of six Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 Read more…
Databricks Sees Compound Systems as Cure to AI Ailments
Databricks today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Mosaic AI stack that is aimed at addressing some of the challenges that customers face building GenAI systems, including accuracy, toxicity, latency, and cost. At Read more…
Altair Bolsters Analytics Offering with Cambridge Semantics Buy
Altair Engineering will soon fortify its end-to-end data science offering with the acquisition of Cambridge Semantics and its semantic graph database. Terms of the deal, which was announced yesterday, were not disclosed. Read more…
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
This Just In
Feb 5, 2025 |
MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 5, 2025 — PEAK:AIO, a pioneering software company known for redefining data infrastructure for modern AI and GPU applications, today announced its role in the University of Strathclyde‘s MediForge Hub, a new initiative set to enhance pharmaceutical manufacturing by reducing raw material usage and waste by 60%. Read more…
Jan 23, 2025 |
Jan. 23, 2025 — In the wake of the Covid pandemic, the U.S. healthcare industry is straining under the weight of rising costs and complexity, worker shortages, and high demand for treatment of chronic conditions, undermining its ability to deliver better and more accessible care. Read more…
Dec 18, 2024 |
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 18, 2024 — Menlo Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing at the forefront of AI, announced its first cohort of 18 companies backed by the $100 million Anthology Fund today. Read more…
Dec 17, 2024 |
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 17, 2024 — The YYC Data Society is pleased to announce YYC DataCon 2025, set to take place from February 27 to March 1 at Calgary’s BMO Centre. Read more…
Nov 25, 2024 |
TOKYO, Nov. 25, 2024 — Physical reservoir computing (PRC) utilizing synaptic devices shows significant promise for edge AI. Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have introduced a novel self-powered dye-sensitized solar cell-based device that mimics human synaptic behavior for efficient edge AI processing, inspired by the eye’s afterimage phenomenon. Read more…
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