The Vision Thing

Posted on September 15, 2017 by proVanceTek

Salesforce earlier this year introduced its Einstein Vision capability, an idea with a lot of promise but not a great deal of precedent. Who had applications that could see, and how would this be used? For decades, we’ve been content with scanning documents and analyzing them with optical character recognition tools, or we’ve used bar codes and QR codes — but it all came down to recognizing simple symbols. Suddenly there was something much closer to human reading that needed explaining — visual search.

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Why We Should Care More About Who's Watching

Posted on September 7, 2017 by proVanceTek

George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949. When the year 1984 rolled around, Rockwell’s haunting song, Somebody’s Watching Me, featuring Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson singing in the background, made its debut and went on to become a classic. Fast-forward to 2017. Today we are living the creepy life Orwell and Rockwell imagined, with technology increasingly intruding on our privacy. Technology has changed our lives forever, both for the better and worse. Few are complaining about the loss of privacy now.

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Enterprise SaaS Market Skyrockets: Report

Posted on September 5, 2017 by proVanceTek

The enterprise SaaS market grew 31 percent year over year, totaling almost $15 billion in revenue in Q2 2017, according to Synergy Research. Collaboration was the highest growth segment. Microsoft is the clear leader in overall enterprise SaaS revenues, having overtaken Salesforce a year ago. Microsoft’s acquisition last year of LinkedIn gave its SaaS operations a significant boost. “Across its whole business, Microsoft has a good cloud-oriented vision in place and is executing strongly,” said John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research.

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This Steampunk Chassis is the Most Amazing PC Rig We’ve Ever Seen

Posted on August 31, 2017 by proVanceTek

A new steampunk case mod more than a year in the making is easily the most impressive build we’ve ever seen. The hardware inside isn’t pulling any punches, either.

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The original article can be found here: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/254848-steampunk-chassis-amazing-case-water-cooled-rig-weve-ever-seen?source=Computing

Uber says it is cooperating with DOJ in bribery probe

Posted on August 30, 2017 by proVanceTek

Uber’s controversial year continues as a preliminary investigation by the Justice Department has been launched against the ride-sharing app for possible violations of bribery laws.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/30/uber-says-it-is-cooperating-with-doj-in-bribery-probe.html

How Qualcomm will improve your smartphone's camera

Posted on August 16, 2017 by proVanceTek

Big changes are coming to your phone’s smartphone camera next year, with Qualcomm previewing an update to its image signal processor (ISP) that will better support features like face recognition and mixed reality.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/16/how-qualcomm-will-improve-your-smartphones-camera.html

Businesses Leverage Instagram Stories to New Heights

Posted on August 3, 2017 by proVanceTek

Instagram’s Stories feature, which launched one year ago, has achieved widespread engagement among businesses that want to raise their brand awareness and expand their e-commerce penetration, the company said. The tool, launched in August 2016, allows users to create digital slide shows out of photos and videos in order to convey a story. Businesses ranging from Taco Bell to J.Crew and Starbucks have used Stories to give a behind-the-scenes peek at new products, launch limited sales, or get instant customer feedback about new initiatives.

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Nvidia Wants to Use AI to Enhance Games, Improve Ray Tracing

Posted on August 1, 2017 by proVanceTek

Nvidia’s show at SIGGRAPH this year centers around AI and how AI processing can benefit gamers and gaming as well as professional users.

The post Nvidia Wants to Use AI to Enhance Games, Improve Ray Tracing appeared first on ExtremeTech.

The original article can be found here: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/253420-nvidia-wants-use-ai-enhance-games-improve-ray-tracing?source=Computing

Google wants to be more like Facebook as it rolls out its own news feed

Posted on July 19, 2017 by proVanceTek

Call it Facebook envy.After announcing the feed in its Google app in December last year, Google announced it is updating the feed, allowing them to follow certain topics, including world events, top news, sports highlights and more, using advanced machine learning.

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Growth for Customer Loyalty Programs Slowing: Census

Posted on July 10, 2017 by proVanceTek

Membership in loyalty programs grew at 15 percent this year to total 3.8 billion, according to the recently published 2017 Colloquy Loyalty Census Report. The growth rate recorded in the 2015 loyalty census, when membership stood at 3.3 billion, was 26 percent. Growth has slowed because the United States is a maturing market, said Melissa Fruend, author of the report. Mergers and acquisitions in the grocery sector, which saw memberships plummet 24 percent from 188 million to 142 million, were another factor.

The original article can be found here: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84657.html?rss=1

Amazon Pushes Alexa, Highlights Small Sellers in Prime Day Deals

Posted on July 10, 2017 by proVanceTek

Amazon is ready to disrupt the retail landscape for the third consecutive year, as it launches its July 11 Prime Day promotion. The company will offer thousands of discounted items and special promotions to reward its Prime customers and increase their numbers, while rivals scramble to compete. Starting at 6 p.m. on Monday, Amazon will offer special curated deals on some of its biggest-selling items. The Amazon Echo smart speaker, powered by its Alexa assistant, will be available for 50 percent off, at $89.99. The Echo Dot will go for $34.99.

The original article can be found here: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84656.html?rss=1

Apple expands bet on cutting edge privacy technology

Posted on July 7, 2017 by proVanceTek

Last year, Apple Inc. kicked off a massive experiment with new privacy technology aimed at solving an increasingly thorny problem: how to build products that understand users without snooping on their activities.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/07/apple-expands-bet-on-cutting-edge-privacy-technology.html

Facebooks internet-beaming drone managed not to crash on its second outing

Posted on June 30, 2017 by proVanceTek

Facebook’s internet-beaming drone suffered a crash landing at the end of its debut outing last year. However, the team has clearly improved its design, on Thursday reporting a successful test flight and landing.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/06/30/facebooks-internet-beaming-drone-managed-not-to-crash-on-its-second-outing.html

Ransomware attack costs South Korean company $1M, largest payment ever

Posted on June 21, 2017 by proVanceTek

Ransomware got a proverbial shot in the arm earlier this year following the WannaCry attacks and it looks as if hackers are getting more brazen with their requests as a result.Web hosting company Nayana, based in South Korea, was attacked with the Erebus ransomware on June 10. The company ultimately had to pay a fee of 397.6 Bitcoin (approximately $1 million), the largest ransomware paid ever.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/06/21/ransomware-attack-costs-south-korean-company-1m-largest-payment-ever.html

Self-Driving Cars, AI Are Driving New Chip Designs

Posted on June 16, 2017 by proVanceTek

At Computex this year, PCs shared top billing with a huge range of IoT products. Smartphones, which have dominated the show in other years, were much less emphasized.

The post Self-Driving Cars, AI Are Driving New Chip Designs appeared first on ExtremeTech.

The original article can be found here: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/251006-self-driving-cars-artificial-intelligence-driving-new-chip-designs-smartphone-market-matures?source=Computing

Xbox One X, along with its 4k gaming prowess, will be available Nov. 7

Posted on June 13, 2017 by proVanceTek

One year after Project Scorpio was announced at E3, Microsoft finally revealed that the new Xbox One X is coming out on November 7. The system will cost $500.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/06/13/xbox-one-x-along-with-its-4k-gaming-prowess-will-be-available-nov-7.html

A brand new version of the Galaxy S8 is about to launch

Posted on June 13, 2017 by proVanceTek

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 was released back in April of this year, but it’s arguably still the best Android smartphone on the planet.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/06/13/brand-new-version-galaxy-s8-is-about-to-launch.html

New strain of malware can take power stations offline

Posted on June 13, 2017 by proVanceTek

Crash Override disabled part of the electrical grid in Ukraine last year, and many more power stations could be susceptible, according to security experts.

The original article can be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/06/13/new-strain-malware-can-take-power-stations-offline.html

82nd Airborne turns 100: Here are 4 major innovations over the past 100 years

Posted on June 8, 2017 by proVanceTek

This is the centennial year of the US Army 82nd Airborne Division. At Major General Michael Kurilla’s remarks at the 100th Anniversary Memorial Service on May 24, he touched on the group’s history, noting: “A group of Americans from all over the country [formed] to fight as a cohesive unit. This had never been done before. They represented the values of All Americans.”

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Hands On With Augmented Reality From ODG and Meta

Posted on June 7, 2017 by proVanceTek

2016 was a coming-out year for consumer-priced VR headsets from Oculus and HTC. 2017 is slated to be the year for AR wearables, with launches from ODG and Meta. We go hands on with both.

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