The World May Be Headed for a Fragmented ‘Splinternet’
Davey Alba at Wired muses that we are headed towards a "splinternet": an internet that is different depending on the…
Grey Failures and the Quest for More Monitoring
A recent paper from Microsoft Research, Azure and John Hopkins University discusses the issues of troubles of grey failures. This is…
Kubernetes already the de-facto standard? For hybrid-cloud-loving enterprises, maybe in the future
CoreOS recently commissioned a study to show the usage of containers in the clouds where they discuss how many enterprises…
Deep Learning: A superficial look
Deep Learning is the machine intelligence du jour, being peddled from the largest companies to the smallest startups. Google claims…
Map shading: Unnatural but familiar because of human perception
Map shading is a very traditional art, and the tradition has been thus for more than a century: the light…
Free speech in a post-factual world
The Internet has been a great equalising force as a platform for the spread of opinion, and it can take…
The E3 of yore is never coming back (spoiler: it never has)
I recently watched a YouTube video that went into great detail (15 minutes of detail, to give an indication) on…
Google Home: A very, very quick followup on evolution
Yesterday's entry on Google Home has been viewed over 10,000 times at the time of writing. The data collection, however,…
Cheap labor being replaced by robots. The surprise is… none.
Bloomberg reports that Chinese factories are increasingly turning to automation in order to combat wage pressure and rising wages for…
I ask 100 information questions to four digital assistants. All of them fail at least half.
After seeing the poor feedback of Watson in Bridge Crew, I decided to take my four digital assistants for a spin.…