Voice and natural language serve up the UI of the future. Here's how to incorporate them into your applications, without relying on someone else's API
How do you know if your company has a problem with bias about gender, race, or other factors? The data is there for you to find out—and fix the problem
Like it or not, we're all getting more and more dependent on the cloud. But Tuesday's outage shows the folly of depending on only one cloud
Retailers collect tons of data about you and what you like, but don't expect brick-and-mortar stores to provide 'special offers' based on that data soon
Code analysis is only part of rating website vulnerability. Add parameters like developer experience to your analysis, and you might even predict the next breach
Trump's cable-loving crony at the helm of the FCC spells doom for the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally
Your data is a mess. Stop procrastinating and put your best intentions to work with this handy priority list
Remove head from sand. Resist impulse to hug server. Prepare yourself for the inevitable
Internet freedom and literacy are important, particularly in the Trump era. These groups deserve your help
Here's how to tell when your coding job isn't all it's cracked up to be -- and it's time to take off for a new gig
It's all us techies' fault in creating robots and machine intelligence that can do a better job than even the best-trained workers
Worry about your career, worry about your impossible SLA, worry about Trump ... but don't bother worrying about this stuff
It's time for our annual ritual: Burn some incense, peer into the dark, and fret about the future
Technology can affect democracy in unpredictable ways, including via seemingly innocuous notifications
Microsoft has grown so warm and fuzzy about open source, you almost expect Satya Nadella to wear a cardigan. But there's a knife under that sweater
Hello, computer: Hands-free computing a la 'Star Trek' is coming soon
AtScale, a maker of big data reporting tools, has published speed tests on the latest versions of the top four big data SQL engines. Conclusion: Time to upgrade!
You think you got the hang of big data analytics? There's no time to be smug. To deliver real value, you'd better keep your stack up to date
So many press releases, so little time -- here are the product announcement emails that get deleted based on the subject line alone
AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and the rest enable you to build and/or deploy stuff in record time -- but those clouds aren't killing on-prem IT for good reason
Sure, there are graph databases like Neo4j, but graph analysis or graph search may be more useful, depending on the sorts of data relationships you need to explore
Dire predictions about artificial intelligence eliminating working-class jobs tend to come from people who don't understand what those workers do
A long, rocky relationship with Apple products and tech support culminates with a tangled up Apple ID -- and a yearning for Linux
The most popular mobile platform in the world doesn't seem to care much about making developers happy
It's unbelievable that in 2016 an entire airline could be brought to its knees by a datacenter outage. Did Delta skip computer science class? Let's review
While Hadoop, Spark, and NoSQL databases make more noise, search is the original -- and one of the most useful -- big data technologies
Know the signs! You might not be able to affect the outcome, but at least you'll recognize when to fasten your seatbelt and update your resume
BI has always topped of the list of enterprise priorities -- and execs are always the least satisfied with BI initiatives. Why should big data be any different?
As mobile users overwhelm shared cellular data networks, scrappy independent providers armed with low-cost equipment could bring the solution
IT's mainframe managers don't want to give you access but do want the mainframe's data used. Here's how to square that circle
Hadoop's distributed file system isn't as fast, efficient, or easy to operate as it should be
Every company wants to know what its customers feel about it. But sentiment analysis can get more granular -- and turn inward to improve employee satisfaction
Few enterprises enjoy even the first-order benefits of big data. The real payoff will come when we interact with systems much less than we do today
Heron, Twitter's brand-new streaming replacement for Apache Storm, offers easier scaling and higher throughput while maintaining Storm code compatibility
Today, Databricks subscribers can get a technical preview of Spark 2.0. Improved performance, SparkSessions, and streaming lead a parade of enhancements
Who needs 'American Idol'? 'Algorithm Idol' is poised to take its place in the pop music mill
To know what people are really doing with big data technology, you need to get dirty in the trenches. Here's what we've found
A new open source streaming analytics solution derived from DataTorrent's RTS platform, Apex offers blazing speed and simplified programmability. Let's give it a spin
New, useful Apache big data projects seem to arrive daily. Rather than relearn your way every time, what if you could go through a unified API?
Thanks to an impressive grab bag of improvements in version 2.0, Spark's quasi-streaming solution has become more powerful and easier to manage
When it comes to wrangling data at scale, R, Python, Scala, and Java have you covered -- mostly
Hive lets you use SQL on Hadoop, but tuning SQL on a distributed system is different. Here are 12 tips to help your effort fly
We've all rolled our eyes at ridiculous misinterpretations of computer technology on TV or in the movies. These eight seem to pop up again and again
A wise person once said time is a device invented to keep everything from happening at once. Jonas Boner explains how the database world has abused time from the beginning
Was that a unicorn? No, it was a perfect data scientist. You won't find that person, but you can find a great hire — if they don't suffer from these maladies.
People who work in tech love the idea of cars that drive themselves. So why are they dragging their feet on new technology that helps them do their jobs?
What? JavaScript instead of Scala or Python? The new EclairJS project bridges the language gap, especially if you already know Node.js
Access control for big data analytics needs policy-based security that includes context as well as users and roles
Spark and big memory have the potential to run big data workloads without copying gobs of data to a new storage infrastructure
Hadoop jobs can get complicated. The open source ETL tool Kettle beats the alternatives in providing the orchestration you need
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