Deep learning outperforms standard machine learning in biomedical research applications, research shows
Compared to standard machine learning models, deep learning models are largely superior at discerning patterns and discriminative features in brain imaging, despite being more complex in their architecture, according to a new study in Nature Communications led by Georgia State University.
Turning Today’s Challenges Into Tomorrow’s Opportunities: Predictions For 2021 And Beyond
With 2020 now behind us, I am sure many of us (if not all of us) are breathing a sigh of relief. In the business community, 2020 became about surviving, pivoting, adapting, and navigating what suddenly became a brand-new landscape.
Getting Past Cybersecurity In IoT Devices And Exploring Their Performance
A plethora of newspaper and digital articles and blogs continue to underscore one key aspect of cybersecurity: Criminals are invading our home IoT devices and spying on us, demanding ransom and destroying our privacy.
Cloud-First Strategies Call For New IT Operations Models
The trend is clear. Many enterprises are adopting a cloud-first approach. Gartner, Inc. says that by 2024, more than 45% of IT spending on infrastructure services will shift from traditional data center solutions to the cloud. This implies that C-level executives need to figure out how to evolve their IT operations.
How The Pandemic Has Accelerated Cloud Adoption
“Digital transformation” has been a buzzword over the last few years, with small and medium businesses as well as large enterprises moving operations to the cloud and adopting online productivity and collaboration services.
Forbes Fintech Awards 2020: Jack Dorsey Gives Banks A Wake-Up Call
This past year was a whirlwind for fintech. The pandemic hit many businesses like a hurricane, with lenders suffering the most damage. But as government stimulus checks hit bank accounts and consumers began buying everything online, some of the most popular personal finance apps and payments companies thrived. Digital banking startup Chime tripled its valuation in six months, reaching $14.5 billion in September.
Wirecard Prompts Call To Action For Global Regulators In 2021
Wirecard’s stunning collapse exposed a litany of failures: by auditors and accountants who took the company’s statements at face value; by scores of journalists who weren’t willing to dig deeper; and by a swathe of investors who helped inflate the company’s valuation without scrutinizing its financials.
Wind powers more than half of UK electricity for first time
Wind power accounted for more than half of Britain’s daily generated electricity on Saturday in the wake of Storm Bella, according to energy giant Drax. The percentage of wind power in the country’s energy mix hit a record 50.67 percent on Saturday, the company said over the weekend, beating the previous record of 50 percent in August.
Which Analytics And BI Technologies Are The Most Popular In Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing techniques are gaining adoption across small and mid-tier manufacturers and this report successfully captures the leading indicators of that shift.
5 tips for leading IT remotely
Many people have had to adapt to working from home and other remote locations — at least part of the time — in the hybrid workplace that’s emerging because of the pandemic. That includes CIOs and other IT executives.
10 most popular interviews of 2020 on EU-Startups
As 2020 comes to a close, however tempting it is to not look back and charge forcefully into 2021, at EU-Startups we’re pausing to find some positive moments. Here we’ve collected together the 10 most-read interviews that we ran this year, which beyond being good reads, show the ingenuity, innovative nature and forward-looking attitudes of European entrepreneurs.
Ethereum Cofounder Reveals ‘Underrated’ Bitcoin And Crypto Bull Case Amid Massive Price Rally
Bitcoin has exploded since October, climbing from its long-time $10,000 per bitcoin support level to never-before-seen highs of almost $35,000.
WhatsApp Soundly Beaten By Apple’s Stunning New iMessage Update
WhatsApp, the world’s leading messenger with 2 billion users sending 100 billion messages each day, popularized secure messaging. But if you’re one of the hundreds of millions using WhatsApp on an iPhone, you’re in for an unwelcome surprise when you see Apple’s stunning new iMessage update.
Robots with rhythm: Boston Dynamics' dancing androids a hit
Boston Dynamics released scary robot videos, but this one is clearly a playful attempt to close the books on 2020. “Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year,” the Waltham, Massachusetts, company says in the caption.
Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter
Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering. In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles transition between order and disorder, as when a collection of randomly colliding atoms freezes to form a uniform crystal lattice.