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Airbus is Teaching Planes to Land Themselves

Most people are familiar with autopilot, the system that controls an airplane’s speed, altitude, and heading under the watch of trained pilots. For the most part, pilots are still in charge of takeoffs and landings, bu Read more…

ASICs on the Edge Help GE Digital Optimize Energy

Edge computing is nothing new. General Electric has been collecting and processing data from jet engines and wind turbines for decades. But the dynamics at play in terms of matching the huge volumes of data generated in Read more…

Built to Last: Laying a Framework for IoT with Enterprise Architecture

IoT is massive -- both in opportunity for business and volume of data created. Over 90% of the data in the world has been created in the past two years, and the current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes a d Read more…

Q&A with C3 IoT’s Tom Siebel

Tom Siebel, who literally created the CRM market back in the 1990s, is now setting out to shake up the Internet of Things world with his latest endeavor, C3 IoT. Datanami recently caught up with the Silicon Valley legend Read more…

The Third Age of Data

The Third Age of Data has arrived. Today, an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal water supplies, and everything in b Read more…

Flink: Worth a Second Look

The big data ecosphere has evolved to the point where there are clear technology leaders. In the category of SQL engines that run on Hadoop, Hive and Spark are clearly the dominant products among open source developers. Read more…

Big Data is the New Engine of the Internet

Mobile devices and expanding networks of sensors are generating huge amounts of data that are increasingly searchable and can be shared to discern patterns and, potentially, to solve problems, according to an annual repo Read more…

Disney Testing Billion-Dollar Big Data System

The “House of Mouse” is getting a big data upgrade to the tune of more than $1 billion, aimed at enhancing visitor trips as well as their spending output. The new system, dubbed the “MyMagic-project,” employs wristbands equipped with RFID chips that tell Mickey what his guests are up to during their vacations. Read more…

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