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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network

The Verge

It’s a feature made possible through Google’s strengths: the staggering numbers of Android phones around the world and clever use of algorithms on big data. That data is processed in classic Google fashion: using algorithms on the aggregated data from thousands of phones to determine whether an earthquake is happening.

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CTOvision Named One Of The Top 50 Must-Read IT Blogs In The US

CTOvision

With the help of our readers during the nominations round and through some good old fashioned sleuthing on the Internet, we believe we've pulled together an all-star list of blogs. Others are focused on specific technology topics, such as networking or security. In short, there's something here for everyone.

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This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data

GeekWire

The amount of the data that we process every day and make available for researchers in a timely fashion makes it a very complex and really big data problem,” said Jay Nanduri , Truveta chief technology officer, in an interview with GeekWire. The company also updates its datasets daily.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

Company employees managed information technology resources (compute, storage, network) and companies tightly controlled their data in facilities they managed. Data security, legal and regulatory concerns, for the most part, were very localized. The data itself was highly structured (i.e.,

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Curating a Digital Life

CTOvision

More and more of our existence is spent on-line in almost every fashion. We must look at OpenTable, read Yelp reviews, get suggestions and once at dinner we’re actually at dinner with roughly 500 people in our extended social network. Privacy is non-existent for the digital self and increasingly less so for the analog version as well.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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CIOs Deal With A Revolution In Grocery Stores

The Accidental Successful CIO

This means that the IT systems that handle how they perform staffing, how their supply networks operate, to how they organize their parking lots and stores are all undergoing fundamental changes. Grocery stores are in the process of changing just about everything about how they operate.

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