January 25, 2021 Contest for control over the semantic layer for analytics begins in earnest A battle for control over how data is processed by analytics applications is starting to emerge in the cloud. Providers of data warehouses such…
January 25, 2021 Data security depends on a secure software-development supply chain As 2020 finally came to an end and 2021 began, The New York Times reported that Russia used SolarWinds’ hacked program to infiltrate at…
January 25, 2021 GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) ‘core’ Mario games Many Mario games are some of the best pieces of digital entertainment ever created. The series seemed like an obvious choice for a new…
January 24, 2021 Alan Pope: The Black Oblong of Monospace Mystery I originally titled this post “Don’t be afraid of the command line”, but decided “Black Oblong of Monospace Mystery” was more fun. Is the…
January 23, 2021 Alan Pope: Kingdom Rush Last week I posted about my guilty collection of unplayed games in Digital Hoarding: Gaming Edition. In short, I have a ton of games…
January 22, 2021 José Antonio Rey: New times, new solutions Our world is changing every day. Drastic changes can happen really quickly. Technology is advancing at a much faster pace than it used to…
January 21, 2021 Ubuntu Blog: Compact and Bijou Snaps are designed to be self-contained packages of binaries, libraries and other assets. A snap might end up being quite bulky if the primary…
December 31, 2020 Gary Shapiro: CES 2021 will have 1,000 virtual exhibits, 150,000 visitors, and 100 programming hours CES 2021 is going to be a very different affair. The biggest tech trade show, which typically takes place every January in Las Vegas,…
December 30, 2020 PGA Tour 2K21 interview: Back on the links Some see PGA Tour 2K21 as a return of license golf to gaming. But really, it hadn’t disappeared. Since EA stopped its PGA series…
December 30, 2020 You don’t code? Do machine learning straight from Microsoft Excel Machine learning and deep learning have become an important part of many applications we use every day. There are few domains that the fast…