Über den Ransomware-Bausatz Bleed Green sollen Kriminelle einen Erpressungs-Trojaner bauen können, der noch mehr Unheil anrichtet, als nur Daten zu verschlüsseln.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Deep Mind hat die neue Version seiner Go-KI heimlich in eine der besten Go-Communities eingeschleust. Dort hat die künstliche Intelligenz ohne Niederlage die besten Gegner der Welt besiegt. (Alpha Go, KI)
Quelle: Golem
Google entwickelt seine künstliche Intelligenz für das Brettspiel Go offenbar weiter. Mittlerweile hat AlphaGo auf Servern reihenweise Profi-Spieler besiegt.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Apple
The winter holidays proved to be another season of milestones for Apple's App Store.
Apple on Thursday said App Store purchases topped a record-breaking $3 billion for the month of December*, culminating in a New Years Day spike that saw customers spend nearly $240 million in a single day. And this too was a new record; The App Store&039;s prior biggest sales day ever was Jan. 1, 2016, when customers spent more than $144 million.
In a news release, Apple — which takes a 30% cut of apps sold through the App Store — said developers earned some $20 billion in 2016, up 40 percent from 2015. That&039;s a third of the $60 billion they&039;ve earned since the store first opened in 2008. The company attributed a portion of this uptick to in-app subscriptions which now span more than 20,000 apps, including Netflix, HBO Now, and MLB.com At Bat. App Store customers spent $2.7 billion on in-app subscriptions in 2016, up 74% from 2015, Apple said. The company takes a 30% cut of any monthly charges when a new user signs up within an iOS app. But after 12 months, that fee drops to 15%.
By 2016&039;s end, the App Store offered some 2.2 million apps in total, up over 20 percent from 2015. For the year, Pokemon Go was the most-downloaded app among them. But Super Mario Run became the fastest-downloaded app in App Store history when it debuted on December 15, with 40 million downloads in four days. Neither Apple nor Nintendo, the app&039;s developer, have disclosed how many people have made the Mario Run leap from free to freemium with the game&039;s $10 in-app purchase.
* While Apple did not break out App Store sales for December 2015 in its last holiday sales round-up, it did say that “customers spent over $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases during the two weeks ending January 3.”
Quelle: <a href="Apple Sets New App Store Record With Billion In December Sales“>BuzzFeed
Falsche Haftungsregeln, zu ungenau, kein Datenschutz – Verbrauchervertreter lassen kaum ein gutes Haar an einem Referentenentwurf aus dem Verkehrsministerium zum autonomen Fahren.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Thomas J. Watson said, “I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.”
When you look at companies today — big or small, anywhere in the world — one consistent tenet they all have is the drive to innovate. Innovation is required for success, and more than that, survival.
If you walk around any IBM office today — whether at Astor Place in New York City, the office in Hursley, England, or the one in Cairo, Egypt — you will see signs reminding teams to “Treasure wild ducks” and “Become essential to our customers.” Maybe the simplest and most profound is “Think.” The rationale is to remind people daily what truly makes an IBMer and makes IBM different.
That is why IBM continues to institutionalize the practice of innovation, empowering teams to not only think, but also to act and make their ideas reality. One way IBM is doing that is with the Connect to Cloud Cognitive Build initiative.
Over the past four months, IBMers from around the world have been forming teams with the goal of making use of IBM technology solutions, combining them with Watson APIs, and creating solutions that may change customer experiences, markets or even the world.
I would like to invite you to follow their journey. Nearly 50 submissions have been narrowed down to 13 semifinalists who are now in the prototyping phase, and the three finalists will be invited to IBM InterConnect on 19 March, when the winner will be announced.
Between now and then, we are following three project teams as they create their prototypes leading up to the judging. You will get a chance to meet the teams, understand why they decided to undertake their specific project, and watch their successes and struggles as they try to make them work.
Here is a sneak peek of what they are doing:
Cognitive Water Information System (CoW-IS) is an automated, real-time monitoring system for the prevention of flood and drought-related disasters. It shares predicted and preemptive information with concerned stakeholders so they can take action to prevent loss of life and property.
#HatsOff is a mobile application built on a cognitive hybrid cloud solution and Samaritan network. It facilitates and rewards random acts of kindness by enabling users to give others thumbs-ups, pats on the back and virtual high-fives.
Cognibot is a ChatBot-driven conversational experience with which DevOps users solve complex middleware problems using natural language questions. Users get only the data they need, not the full, data heavy-dashboard. This way, they can dig into the institutional knowledge of the organization and reduce downtime.
So join us on 12 January for the first set of videos to meet the people who make IBM the innovative company it is.
Learn more about how IBM helps users take advantage of the digital economy.
The post Meet 3 contenders in the Connect to Cloud Cognitive Build initiative appeared first on #Cloud computing news.
Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Große Veränderungen bei der Vega-Generation: AMD hat HBM2-Stapelspeicher als schnellen Cache, neue Shader-Einheiten und eine verbesserte Geometrie- sowie Rasterizer-Stufe integriert. Hinzu kommt eine hohe FP32/FP16-Leistung und der Vega-10-Chip erweist sich in Doom als flott. (AMD Vega, Grafikhardware)
Quelle: Golem
Mit dem Weihnachtsgeschäft ist Sony offenbar mehr als zufrieden: Rund 6,2 Millionen Playstation 4 hat das Unternehmen an Endkunden verkauft. Die weltweite Hardwarebasis liege damit bei über 53,4 Millionen Geräten. Auch die Spiele kann Sony weiterhin sehr gut verkaufen. (Playstation 4, Sony)
Quelle: Golem
Spätestens seit seiner Wahl zum US-Präsidenten werden die berüchtigten Tweets von Donald Trump nicht nur in den USA besonders aufmerksam gelesen. Nun hat die größte chinesische Nachrichtenagentur deutliche Kritik an Trumps Twitter-Nutzung geübt.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Für die kommenden Vega-Grafikchips verbessert und erweitert AMD seine GCN-Architektur an entscheidenden Stellen. Zusätzlich soll der neue HBM2-Speicher genügend Tranferrate und Fassungsvermögen für die Anwendungen von morgen liefern.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
