June 18, 2021
Author: Adam Pease
June 16, 2021
USPS Teams up with NVIDIA for Computer Vision
by Adam Pease This month the US Postal Service (USPS) made public news that it would be incorporating computer vision into 195 of its mail processing centers. The announcement boasted that these new AI systems would be
June 9, 2021
The Emerging tPaaS Market: Watch This Space
by Betsy Burton Yesterday, I was pleased to be able to participate in Aragon Research’s June 2021 Transform Tour. It was a very exciting and dynamic event. The first presentation featured two of my colleagues Jim Lun
IBM Watson Health: The Future of Surgery with Robots
by Adam Pease Recently, IBM Watson Health has released more information about its partnership with Merge Healthcare, which aims to leverage AI-based platforms to transform medical processes. At the core of this solution
June 8, 2021
Is Our Food Supply at Risk? The Escalation of Ransomware as a Service
by Craig Kennedy Last weekend JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company based in Brazil, became the latest high-profile victim of a ransomware attack as its facilities in the US, Canada, and Australia came unde
June 4, 2021
Adobe Prepares for AI Content Automation
by Adam Pease This week Adobe pushed further into the computer vision market with its new research on directional generative adversarial networks (DGANS). While the name may sound confusing, these AI systems are closely
June 2, 2021
Even Good AI Can’t Cover For Bad Management Decisions
by Betsy Burton This week, the online insurance company, Lemonade Inc., received significant backlash after it released a series of tweets about its AI capabilities. While the tweets have officially been deleted they can
Amazon’s Invasion of Your Home Internet—What Could Go Wrong?
by Jim Lundy Amazon Sidewalk is coming this month to your Echo and Ring devices and it’s an automatic invasion of your home internet that you need to be aware of. To get to the bottom line right away, we recommend opt
Considerations for Smart City IoT Deployment
by Ken Dulaney IoT has always been a singular concept for many, but those simple three letters can mislead about the true difficulty involved in deploying and managing the technologies under that umbrella term. IoT is a
May 31, 2021
Defi and Smart Contracts: DFINITY and Ethereum
by Adam Pease Recently, blockchain-based cloud computing provider DFINITY listed its cryptocurrency, ICP, on the Coinbase general exchange. ICP is of interest not just to investors and crypto traders, but to the enterpr
Will Facebook’s Push for Augmented Reality Help It Compete with Tiktok?
by Adam Pease and Jim Lundy While Facebook just published a new expose on its upcoming wearable augmented reality offering, it is fighting a war with Tiktok that features extensive use of Augmented Reality based filters
May 28, 2021
SolarWinds Hackers Impersonate USAID
by Craig Kennedy Microsoft announced on Thursday May 27th that its Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) had detected a wide scale malicious email campaign targeting around 3,000 accounts at 150+ organizations ac
May 26, 2021
Microsoft Strikes Back at Amazon with Computer Vision
by Adam Pease At this week's Microsoft Build, Microsoft demoed its Azure Applied AI Services offering, which aims to deliver fast, streamlined AI solutions to the enterprise. This move foreshadows several trends that ar
May 13, 2021
Pipelines Become Strategic: The Rise of Ransomware as a Service
by Craig Kennedy and Jim Lundy Last weekend Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the US, carrying 2.5 million barrels a day to Southern and Eastern states, was hacked and shut down. This pipeline alone carr
May 7, 2021
CSNF—One Less Hurdle to Multi-Cloud
by Craig Kennedy The New Security Standard for Cloud Providers A new standard in cloud security notification is being introduced that will vastly simplify the integration of security telemetry from public cloud providers
May 6, 2021
Chip Shortage Has Short and Long-Term Implications
by Jim Lundy The current global chip shortage is impacting more and more industries and it’s making people rethink their supply chains. While some think this is tactical, there are broader longer-term implications t
Computer Vision Comes of Age: Intel Dives In
by Adam Pease Recently, Intel partnered with John Deere to implement computer vision solutions for agriculture and other related industries. The semiconductor giant and the equipment manufacturer teamed up to put AI to
April 30, 2021
Government Cloud Wars: Project JEDI—May the Force Be With You
by Craig Kennedy This week a federal court judge ruled that Amazon’s lawsuit claiming interference in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract awarded last year to Microsoft can proceed. This
Communications Security—Who Is Listening to Your Meetings and Calls?
by Jim Lundy Most people take everything for granted when it comes to communication and collaboration security. However, new information to emerge over the last year that indicates that there may be other people and gov