Wind power: A $27 billion opportunity readymade for AI and autonomous drones

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The enterprise drone market is ascending rapidly. Goldman Sachs estimated that businesses will spend $13 billion on drones between now and 2020. Promising commercial applications for drones range from emergency response and firefighting to surveying farmland and grocery delivery. However, as is the …READ MORE

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How to write a screen scraper application with HtmlUnit

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I recently published an article on screen scraping with Java, and a few Twitter followers pondered why I used JSoup instead of the popular, browser-less web testing framework HtmlUnit. I didn’t have a specific reason, so I decided to reproduce the exact same screen scraper application tutorial with …READ MORE

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BakkerElkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless Compact Keyboard

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The BakkerElkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless Compact Keyboard is difficult to pronounce and requires a full lung-full of air to say in one go… but it’s a piece of kit that stands out for a number of reasons and this is the story of why.

Before telling you about some of the features and feel… l…READ MORE

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Women in code series: Jane Silber of Diffblue

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.

But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough part out of the way and talk about the problem.

If all were fair and good in the world, it would…READ MORE

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Win10 Minimum Hardware Requirements Get Interesting

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Yesterday brought me an interesting item in the TenForums Windows 10 News forum. Tantalizingly, it’s entitled “MS updates CPU requirements page for Windows 10 May 2019 Update.” Thus, this item reflects the latest and greatest set of Win10 CPU requirement in particular, and hardware requirements in g…READ MORE

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Sorry Cadwalladr, I misunderstood

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Carole Cadwalladr has used her TED talk to highlight Facebook’s obfuscation regarding political adverts on its site, calling for Mark Zuckerberg to hold a TED talk of his own or risk finding himself on the wrong side of history.

If you don’t know who Carole Cadwalladr is, by the way, you’r…READ MORE

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MSP software takes a different turn in ServiceNow-LogicMonitor link

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Managed service providers pursue a range of approaches when they deploy MSP software to automate their core functions.

Many companies follow a multi-vendor path, purchasing what they consider best-in-class systems for remote monitoring and management, professional services automation, remote cont…READ MORE

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Cisco, Dell Technologies renew VxBlock dalliance

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Cisco and Dell Technologies may be rivals in the server business, but when it comes to converged infrastructure, the two vendors remain strong partners.

Cisco, EMC and VMware in 2009 formed VCE, a joint venture that ushered in Vblock era of converged infrastructure. A lot has changed since in the…READ MORE

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Nationwide Building Society challenges seven fintechs to develop apps for financially vulnerable

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Seven fintechs are taking part in a challenge set Nationwide and will share a £3m fund as well as the knowledge and experience of experts from the building society and beyond.

The Nationwide’s Open Banking for Good challenge wants apps developed that can help people that are “financially squ…READ MORE

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Why your company doesn't need block chain

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Blockchain is the new hot thing in IT. Basically, every company out there is trying to figure out where Block Chain fits into their environment.  Here’s the big secret of blockchain; your company doesn’t need it.

Blockchain is simply a write one technology that allows you to change records, but …READ MORE

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Virginia Court Throws Out License Plate Readers Data Collection

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As you may recall, police departments and other organizations have been loading up on automated license plate readers that help them track automobile locations, and even selling the data. Now, at least one judge, in Fairfax County, Virginia, has told them they can’t do that.

“The ruling by Fa…READ MORE

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PowerShell version incompatibilities

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There are incompatibilities between Powershell versions – you can’t use classes in Windows PowerShell v4 and there are differences between Windows PowerShell v5.1 and v6.x. One way to deal with PowerShell version incompatibilities is described in the recent post from the PowerShell team – htt…READ MORE

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How an 18th century Maths puzzle solves 21st century problems

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This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j, in which he explains how an elegant solution to the mathematical puzzle to find the most efficient way of traversing the bridges in Prussia’s Koenigsberg resulted in graph theory

It’s the anniversary this month (15 April) of Swiss mathemati…READ MORE

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TensorFlow Plug-In Enhances Machine Learning Capabilities @Quobyte

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TensorFlow plug-in recently launched by Quobyte for its distributed file system proves to enhance throughput performance by 30 percent for Machine Learning (ML) training workflows. Probably this is the first of its own kind of plug-in for a proven enhancement in machine learning capabilities. Quobyt…READ MORE

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Predictions for Edge Computing in 2019

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Edge Computing Image via Adobe
 

By James Kobielus (@jameskobielus)

Edge computing is the future of the cloud, and it’s the ecosystem in which all future devices will operate and within which they’ll engage with users and each other to optimize our lives 24×7.

 
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Cutting off the internet is a TERRIBLE idea, whether or not you agree with Extinction Rebellion

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Many people using the London Underground today will likely have noticed that the usual Virgin Media-run Wi-Fi service is not working. Some might even have been mildly inconvenienced by not being able to access the internet on the platform like normal.

The network is down not thanks to some techni…READ MORE

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Banking and finance bigwigs yank climate change chord

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It has been a week of activism and a call for action, with the Extinction Rebellion, causing major disruptions in London.

But alongside grass roots demonstrations, there appears to be a greater awareness in the corporate world, that every business has a role to play in tackling the catastrophic e…READ MORE

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Ubuntu 19.04 is here

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The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team is running Ubuntu.

More specifically, we’re running Ubuntu 19.04 on an originally Windows-empowered Lenovo laptop as a dual boot.

NOTE: Incidentally, this is an altogether joyous experience… although the BIOS boot screen defaults to Ubuntu start…READ MORE

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Four things you should know about the 5G game in Asia-Pacific

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This is a guest post by Simon Lockington, director of global solutions enablement at Equinix Asia-Pacific

Industry watchers are predicting that 4G LTE subscribers in Asia-Pacific will naturally make the move to 5G’s faster network when the service becomes available post-2020. In Singapore, 5G …READ MORE

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Microsoft Build 2019 agenda reveals .NET, Azure insights

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Microsoft’s Build conference for developers and IT operations professionals is just a few weeks away, but a close look at the session catalog reveals clues to the event’s likely highlights. Here’s a look at four key themes slated for the event.
The .NET lowdown
Build attendees will peer into the f…READ MORE

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