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Perhaps the most secretive firm to emerge from Silicon Valley, Palantir Technologies is set for a stock market debut this month that may shed light on the Big Data firm specializing in law enforcement and national security. Palantir is a major player in "Predictive policing," a technology which critics say can amplify bias in law enforcement.
Unravel Data announced Unravel for AWS Databricks, a solution to deliver comprehensive monitoring, troubleshooting, and application performance management for AWS Databricks environments. "Unravel for AWS is our latest effort to expand the platform to accommodate Big Data wherever it exists. With this addition, Unravel now supports Databricks in both AWS and Azure, and the Unravel platform is broadly available in every major public cloud as well as on-premises and in hybrid settings. We were always committed to being infrastructure-agnostic and this is another milestone in that mission."
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Billions of data points are gathered throughout the UPS network every week. Find out how the information collected is revolutionizing the logistics giant.
In order to keep company data safe and use it to its full potential, follow these tips on tracking and monitoring data access and usage. Many enterprises don't know how employees are using their data, and they deal with incidents of employee insider data hacks that can be as threatening as data compromises that come from the outside, according to Virtru, a data encryption company.
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It's a fine line between countries sharing data in order to help with common interests and imposing on the privacy of those who provide it. The World Economic Forum's director weighs in.
Murat Sönmez: Data is basically information that a thing-a car-generates, or a device, or data about you. If you can collect data from sensors on the environment we live in, if you can collect data about your lifestyle-you need to exercise, what you eat-and collect data on genetics, we can pool that.
The takedown of Equifax begs the question of whether attackers might also have been camping out in the networks of other consumer credit reporting agencies - Experian, TransUnion and others - as well as other data brokers. Interesting overlay: In 2015, President Barack Obama threatened China with severe sanctions if it didn't cease its hack attack ways, and in September of that year, he reached a landmark agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which aimed to put intellectual property off limits for nation-state espionage operators.
At CES 2020, Sleep Number debuted its latest smart beds, which feature climate-controlled technology that gathers data while you snooze. TechRepublic's Karen Roby talked to Stacy Stusynski, vice president of product at Sleep Number, at CES 2020 about the Climate 360 smart bed and how the Internet of Things and analytics can help you get a better night's sleep.