Billionaire and perennial Midas Lister John Doerr is stepping back from a general partner role to be the chairman at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Here’s what that means for one of tech’s most storied venture firms.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice may be the most divisive comic book film ever. The film earned a staggering $501.9 million during the first five days in theaters, shattering records left and right, but also saw one the steepest drop-offs. The movie has been savagely denounced by critics but has received a warm reception from many fans
An international consortium of over 200 organizations had banded together to define and publish an open standard, CRISP-DM, for analysis of massive datasets.
It is election season. But you didn’t need me to tell you that. It seems like there is a debate every week. It is also the season when many meteorologists and climatologists are watching one of the strongest El Niños on record gradually weaken and possibly transition to La Nina phase. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says,
A weakening El Niño continues. Tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures are still much warmer than average, but subsurface temperatures—El Niño’s “heat source”—have declined sharply………Transition to ENSO-neutral is likely by early summer 2016, with close to a 50% chance for La Niña to develop by fall.
La Niña (the “little girl” in Spanish) represents a decrease in sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific. It is the “cold event” counterpart to the El Niño warm event. Both are a part of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Like its warm sibling, La Niña is associated with teleconnections that affect seasonal weather patterns. Weather.com has an excellent discussion of typical effects of La Niña on U.S. temperatures, rainfall, and hurricane activity. Scientific analyses suggests that strong El Niños are often followed by La Niña. There is statistical evidence and physical underpinnings to support this observation though caution should be exercised before making this a “rule of thumb.”
Fitbit has announced that it has shipped more than a million units of its Blaze smartwatch in the first month of the device’s availability. The timepiece, which went on sale in the first week of March, has also become an Amazon best-seller both in the smart watch and heart monitor categories.
Fitbit Blaze
In addition, the company also announced that shipments of its Alta fitness tracker have also crossed the one million mark, something which happened in the first three weeks of the device’s retail availability.
Los bloqueadores de publicidad se están convirtiendo en una función incluida por defecto en muchos navegadores, y Edge será también otro que apoye dicha moda. La función fue descubierta por ZDNet durante la presentación…
Como algunos ya sabréis, estos días se están produciendo algunas importantes conferencias por parte de Microsoft. En ellas se han hablado sobre dispositivos y aplicaciones, como por ejemplo Skype, la conocida app de mensajería y llamadas que podemos utilizar tanto en Windows como en Android y otros dispositivos.
Cortana se integra en Skype, entre otros cuantos bots
Dada la gran competencia que sufre Skype ante otras muchas aplicaciones de mensajería como Telegram, los de Redmond han querido empezar a trabajar duramente para contrarrestar los posibles efectos del auge de las otras aplicaciones basadas en las mismas funcionalidades.
Por lo tanto, lo primero que han hecho ha sido integrar Cortana en el cliente de Skype, algo que hemos conocido por Androidsis. De esta forma tendréis un asistente virtual que actuará como un Skype Bot, ayudando de esta forma a los usuarios a identificar personas, lugares y topo tipo de cosas que se extraigan de los mensajes que mandemos.
Otras tareas que gestionará el Skype Bot es la de gestión de viajes y reservas de hoteles y la del calendario. De momento sólo estará disponible para el servicio de mensajería, pero Microsoft ha confirmado ya que más tarde también se encontrará en las llamadas de voz y vídeo.
In trying to understand the cosmic story of where everything comes from, planets have long been a mystery. Thanks to the ALMA images, that mystery is being solved.
Intel just announced a brand new family of Xeon processors for enterprise applications, the Xeon E5 v4. If you’re familiar with Intel’s enterprise processors offerings, the Xeon E5 v4 family will probably not be a surprise. These new products are the logical follow-up to last year’s Xeon E5 v3 family of processors.
When it comes to data centers, most CIOs prefer to be at the center of it all. Keeping close to IT resources is critical – enabling faster response times, more effective management, and easier transitions. This is particularly true when integrating colocation into technology roadmaps, as many IT leaders require offsite facilities to be located within 50 miles of their IT staff’s offices. But the rules are changing – especially when green IT comes into the equation.