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Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Aditya Kaul. Last week, Pebble launched its third-generation smart watch, called Pebble Time.  Pebble is considered a smart watch pioneer, having raised over $10 million during its Kickstarter debut in 2012. Since then, Pebble has sold more than 1 million smart watches. (Source: Pebble) With the Apple Watch coming in April, Pebble had no choice but to come up with something compelling enough to remain competitive in an increasingly crowded field. Its monochrome e-paper first edition smart watch could only go so far in competing with the AMOLED, full color, animated display of the Apple ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Bruce Daley. Why are cars that drive themselves considered smart, but airplanes that fly themselves considered mindless?  Despite working in similar ways, airplanes are not described as being “intelligent” or “pilotless”.  Even with a longer history, more sophistication, and greater success, avionics are regarded with a measure of contempt.  According the Dictionary of American Slang, being on autopilot means you are a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness.  When you are on autopilot, your body is going through the motions but your mind is gone.  Yet cars that can drive themselves have been ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Anna Mulamba; Modern businesses often have several mission-critical applications, services and resources running in the cloud. The bigger the organization, the more likely these assets are spread across public and private clouds and a variety of cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. It’s easy to understand why: The cloud has enabled greater flexibility, accessibility, and resilience for IT professionals and business units alike. However, the convenience of the cloud has also created new headaches. Managing all those disparate resources and services — spread across multiple cloud providers and accounts/subscriptions ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Aditya Kaul. Swatch is the biggest watchmaker in the world, with revenues of more than $9 billion in 2014. There has been a lot of attention on what the Swiss watchmaker will do in the smart watch space – whether it will try and change with the times, partner with technology companies on producing a smart watch, or just focus on their traditional watch business. In the past, Swatch has been skeptical about smart watches but now they seem to have changed their mind and are expected to launch a smart watch in the next ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Manoj Sahi. Medical robotics is no longer a new idea. The global medical robotics industry has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years, mostly due to rapid technological advancements and changes in patient mindset with regard to accepting robots’ involvement in their medical care.  A wide range of robots have emerged to serve various specialized roles in the medical environment. For simplicity, I will classify these robots into two broad categories and assess which of these robot types are best positioned for growth this year.  The two main categories are: Robots specializing in human treatment, including ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Aditya Kaul. CES 2015 was a show dominated by wearables. They were all around and not just limited to a specific set of companies or markets.  A wide variety of devices including activity trackers, smart watches, foot sensors, smart glasses, and pet trackers were on display. There were also some great conference sessions, which provided food for thought. For someone that covers the wearables market as a whole, it was slightly overwhelming, but I came away from CES with nine key takeaways about the defining trends in the wearables market. Smart watches are becoming the ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; As the world wide web has crept into every facet of society, web browsers have become a big part of most people’s daily lives. Unfortunately, it’s common for them to be excellent on one platform, but much less so on another. If you’re an Android user looking for a new way to surf the web, this list of the best browsers for Android will help you find one that suits your needs. To judge what web browsers deserve a place on this list, we will, for the most part, look at our standard criteria for ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Gerry Nelson. In a previous post, I discussed using logs to troubleshoot problems in your Viya environment. In this post, I will look at some additional ways to troubleshoot using some of the tools provided by the Viya Operations Infrastructure. With applications, servers and numerous micro-services all working together and generating their own logs in Viya, it can be difficult to find relevant logs. In order to manage the large number of logs and to enable you to locate messages of interest, the operations infrastructure provides components to collect and store log messages. The collection process ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Katie Ryan. ONE is a global movement campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, so that everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity. We believe the fight against poverty isn’t about charity, but about justice and equality. ONE supports grassroots campaigns and pressures governments to do more to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. And ONE empowers citizens to hold their governments to account. If we want to see the end of AIDS, TB, and malaria by 2030, we need to step up the fight and act ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Yngve Svendsen; MySQL Server 8.0.18, 5.7.28 and 5.6.46, new versions of the popular OpenSource Database Management System, have been released. These releasesare recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers,please see the MySQL installation documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/installing.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/installing.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/installing.html These server releases are available in source and binary form for anumber of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ They also available from our repository for Linux platforms, go here fordetails: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/ Windows packages are available via the ... Read More