Sep 3, 2021Here Are The States Searching Most For Unproven Covid ‘Cure’ IvermectinThere have been massive increases in online searches for ivermectin, an antiparasitic repeatedly determined to be of no benefit in treating or preventing Covid-19, in areas with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. ByRobert HartForbes Staff
Sep 3, 2021Data Needs A Passport, How Information Geolocation WorksWith edicts denoting where data needs to exist spanning the US, Europe and further beyond, companies clearly need to think about what nation their data resides in.ByAdrian BridgwaterSenior Contributor
Sep 1, 2021How Chelsea Manning Is Using Her Whistleblower Experience To Protect Others' Privacy While serving the longest sentence ever doled out to a whistleblower, she used her time in incarceration to devise a better way to cover the tracks of other online users.WATCH
Aug 31, 20215 Unconventional Career Tips From Top Women In Data ScienceSo much of our world today depends a great deal on good data, from funding decisions to public health to climate policy. So, we need it to be as unbiased as possible, and that means we need more women in the field. Here are five unconventional career tips from two top women in data science. ByJoan MichelsonContributor
Aug 31, 2021Not Your Father’s Hybrid HDDWestern Digital’s OptiNAND technology differs from earlier hybrid HDD products. OptiNAND moves important HDD metadata to the NAND flash, this frees up HDD space and can be used to move tracks closer together, provide bigger power off cache and enhance HDD reliability.ByTom CoughlinContributor
Aug 31, 2021Databricks Reaches $38 Billion Valuation After New $1.6 Billion InjectionThe AI software company started by seven UC Berkeley researchers has raised $3.5 billion to date and aims to jump-start its growth.ByKenrick CaiForbes Staff
Aug 31, 2021Autonomous Tech Developer Motional Unveils Hyundai Ioniq 5-Based RobotaxiMotional has revealed the first images of the Hyundai Ioniq 5-based robotaxi it plans to deploy on a multi-city driverless service with Lyft in 2023BySam AbuelsamidSenior Contributor
Aug 29, 2021Virtual Persistent Memory HackathonsSNIA’s Persistent Memory Special Interest group is offering online tutorials and virtual hackathons to get developers familiar with using persistent memory. This program can be a resource for getting up to speed on PM.ByTom CoughlinContributor
Aug 28, 2021How Building A Data-Driven Marketing Organization Can Increase InnovationAs the third part in a series on novel ways to drive innovation, I connected with Teresa Barreira, CMO of Publicis Sapient. In this article, Barreira explores how she uses data-driven marketing to increase organizational innovation.ByKimberly A. WhitlerSenior Contributor
Aug 27, 2021Magnetic Tape Shipments Falter In 2020, Future Growth ExpectedLTO tape capacity shipments were down about 7.7% in 2020 versus 2020, but growth is expected in 2021 and going forward. Total magnetic tape capacity shipments in 2020 (LTO and IBM tape) are estimated at about 129 Exabytes. ByTom CoughlinContributor
Aug 25, 2021Moving Computation To Storage And MemorySamsung extends it Processing-in-Memory (PIM) technology from HBM to DIMMS and LPDDR5. Pliops computational storage and flash management device will provide lower infrastructure costs for big data center application. Phison redriver IC helps with PCIe 5.0 implementation.ByTom CoughlinContributor
Aug 24, 2021Cerebras Takes Hyperscaling In New DirectionCerebras has architected a solution that parallelizes the data rather than the workload. By using multiple CS-2 systems loaded with the same AI model... ByJim McGregorContributor
Aug 19, 2021Didi Tumbles As Regulator Plans To Rid Ride-Hailing Industry Of ‘Excessive’ CommissionsRide-hailing giant Didi Global saw its shares crash to their lowest level since the company’s market debut in June as Chinese authorities laid out plans to redouble their efforts to regulate the industry. ByZinnia LeeForbes Staff
Aug 19, 2021Data In The Dark: How Big Tech Secretly Secured $800 Million In Tax Breaks For Data CentersLocal governments are dangling hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to persuade companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft to build server farms in their backyards. But the deals are shrouded in secrecy and the average cost of $1 million per job raises questions about their value.ByDavid JeansForbes Staff
Aug 17, 2021C2Q 2021 HDD UpdateSeagate, Western Digital and Toshiba all reported record HDD exabyte shipments, driven by record nearline HDD demand. Overall quarterly HDD capacity shipmebnts increased by about 22%. This increase in demand for nearline drives also drove up HDD average sales prices by about 12% QoQ.ByTom CoughlinContributor
From the August 2021 issueThe Bigger Picture Behind China’s Tech Crackdown: Ambition To Achieve Tech SupremacyGlobal tech investors might want to think deeper about Beijing’s crackdown on its tech giants–that the bigger picture behind China’s move could be about its ambition to achieve core technology superiority by 2025.ByRich KarlgaardForbes Staff
Aug 10, 2021Infrastructure Bill Neglects GPS ThreatsChina’s authoritarian government has an enormous edge over America in its backup of GPS. When it comes to interference with GPS, America loses and China wins. ByDiana Furchtgott-RothContributor
Aug 9, 2021Senators Want Facebook To Provide More Info About Data Privacy And Political Ads PoliciesIn a letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Christopher Coons and Mark Warner asked a series of questions about the company’s decision to block academic researchers from studying political misinformation.ByMarty SwantForbes Staff
Aug 8, 2021Reported ByteDance IPO Highlights Appeal Of Hong Kong Bourse’s Own SharesHKEX has gained 42% in the past yearByRussell FlanneryForbes Staff
Aug 8, 2021ByteDance Revives IPO Plan, Eyes Hong Kong Listing, Financial Times SaysByteDance calls report "inaccurate," without elaborationByRussell FlanneryForbes Staff