Microsoft Has a Plan to Add DNA Data Storage to Its Cloud
Tech companies think biology may solve a looming data storage problem.
Amateur web developers can now look to Mavo
The HTML-based platform provides data-management capabilities without needing a back-end server
Microsoft’s P language is aimed at where cloud, AI, and IoT meet
The Rust-like open source language tackles application development where asynchrony leads to “heisenbugs” and other event complexities
The cloud can’t fix poor application performance
Don’t believe the fairy tale that the cloud’s auto-provisioning and auto-scaling services make software perform better
Google’s new TPUs are here to accelerate AI training
The company’s new specialized hardware will accelerate the creation of intelligent apps
The 5 best beta-testing tools for your app
Beta testing is one of the most important parts of the app development process. Here are tools that just might help you out
The future of IoT can be seen in the PC
IoT exhibits many of the same growing pains as the PC in its early days, with the greatest potential lurking in barely imagined future apps
3D XPoint memory: NAND flash killer or DRAM replacement?
The new solid-state memory fills a growing niche in the data center for processing transactional data
MapD’s GPU-powered database is now open source
Horizontal-scaling and high-availability features are still for-pay only, but MapD wants its number-crunching platform to be integral to data science
Elasticsearch stack wises up with machine learning
The open source log-analysis stack now has machine learning components for more sophisticated analytics, albeit through a commercial add-on