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Intel RealSense ID – face recognition based on neural networks

Intel has expanded its RealSense series of camera technologies to include a face recognition product. RealSense ID should be a simple but secure solution for authentication. Intel sees the purpose of RealSense ID in sensitive areas such as access control in the financial sector or healthcare. According to the company, RealSense ID combines a 3D… Read more

Vaccinations against coronavirus have started: access soon only with a certificate?

What seemed almost unthinkable at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic is now real: Vaccines were developed in record time to get them under control. That brought much-needed hope into a Christmas season that was otherwise overshadowed by death and fear. But while preparations for mass vaccinations are being made worldwide, waiting the public still… Read more

Sailing autonomously far out

The 15 meter long Mayflower is a cooperation project between IBM and the Austrian association for the promotion of marine research Promare. The fully automatic trimaran should be able to scan the horizon for possible dangers, make independent decisions and change its course based on live data. During its mission, the ship will also collect… Read more

Microsoft Reportedly Moving Its Servers to Custom Chips

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) With the Apple M1 in the hands of consumers and Amazon currently working to shift its Azure servers from Nvidia’s processors to its own in-house chips, it’s clear that major tech industry players are keen to bring more and more of their production lines as close to home as possible…. Read more

A new banking scam: smartphone emulators to empty accounts

The criminals used emulators to access bank accounts impersonating legitimate customers, thereby initiating illicit transactions to steal funds of Andrea Bai published on 18 December 2020 , at 12: 41 in the Security channel IBM Trusteer security researchers discovered a scam based on the use of mobile device emulators put into network with each other… Read more

IBM and Fujifilm's new LTO-8 magnetic tape can store 580 TB of data

Although they may be something that reminds us of times past, the truth is that magnetic tapes for data storage are still widely used in servers and data centers as a backup system due to its high reliability and durability over time. We recently echoed information that pointed out that Fujifilm was working on a… Read more

Market share of server processors: AMD CPUs more than doubled, ARM is growing

The global server market is growing while Intel is losing market share. This is the result of estimates by various market observers. International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates third quarter sales of server processors 2020 at 22, 6 billion US dollars, the equivalent of 18, 5 billion euros. Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to… Read more

Fujifilm’s New Tape Can Store 580TB of Data on One Cartridge

Home News (Image credit: IBM) Magnetic tape was invented back in 1928, 92 years ago, but it took years before it got commercialized for audio applications and then as a storage medium for digital data. By today’s consumer standards, magnetic tapes are slow, not convenient to use, and relatively expensive. But as magnetic tape prepares… Read more

Magnetic tape cartridges, new record: IBM and Fujifilm reach 580 terabytes

IBM and Fujifilm have reached a new record for magnetic tape cartridges: the two managed to improve the area density of 27 times compared to today’s solutions, reaching 580 TB per cartridge. by Manolo De Agostini published 17 December 2020 , at 08: 21 in the Device channel IBM Fujifilm The world is increasingly connected… Read more

Magnetic tape cartridges, new record: IBM and Fujifilm reached 580 terabytes

IBM and Fujifilm have reached a new record for magnetic tape cartridges: the two managed to improve the area density of 27 times compared to today’s solutions, reaching 580 TB per cartridge. by Manolo De Agostini published 17 December 2020 , at 08: 21 in the Device channel IBM Fujifilm The world is increasingly connected… Read more

IBM is promising tape drives with more than 500 Tbytes

Tape drives are an ancient and very inexpensive method of storing large amounts of data. They are no longer common among private individuals, but they still have an important target group in large companies: A tape cartridge costs significantly less than a hard disk drive of the same size. The most important feature of such… Read more

How quantum computers will help us find new drugs and better understand the Universe

IBM organized a conference with four researchers who are laying the groundwork for using quantum computers to improve our knowledge of the Universe and to find new materials, including more effective drugs by Riccardo Robecchi published 28 November 2020 , at 15: 31 in the Innovation channel IBM Quantum Computer “There are many challenges humanity… Read more

Syneto focuses on cloud and cybersecurity

Syneto’s new strategy is based on three cornerstones: accelerate the adoption of the hybrid cloud, guarantee information security and offer technological tools to work in smart working in a simple and safe way by Alberto Falchi published on 27 November 2020 , at 18: 31 in the Cloud channel Syneto Syneto is a company with… Read more

Data processing: IBM integrates Confluent with Cloud Pak for Integration

IBM and Confluent have announced a partnership whereby the Confluent platform will become part of the Cloud Pak for Integration. Big Blue offers the latter as an integration platform for applications and data. It offers a modular approach for and with containerized applications. (Image: IBM) Write with Kafka Confluent is the company behind Apache Kafka,… Read more

Billion investments: Samsung wants to catch up with TSMC

Samsung is currently the only competitor to the Taiwanese market leader TSMC in the manufacture of computer chips using the 5 nm process. The US business journal Bloomberg has now published information according to which Samsung wants to catch up with TSMC by 2022. For this purpose, around 116 billion US dollars (approximately 98 billion… Read more