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Qubole, the cloud-based Hadoop service launched by Hive creators Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma in 2012, is now offering users access to Presto, Facebook’s system interactive SQL queries on data stored in Hadoop. Facebook first announced it had created Presto in June, and then open sourced the technology in November. The type of capability Presto provides — fast, interactive SQL queries on Ha
This virtual currency thing just got another piece of validation: in the wake of Bitcoin’s spectacular rise, fall and wary stabilization, Google(s goog) Ventures has decided to invest in OpenCoin, the company behind the Ripple distributed currency exchange. (Quick note: We’ll be hosting some Bitcoin experts at the San Jose Tech Museum on Thursday, May 16, from 6-9pm, so be there if you’re into thi
It’s no secret that Microsoft(s msft) Research has been hard at work on deep learning techniques over the past few years, and the company showed off one of the reasons why on Tuesday: natural-language voice search on the new Xbox One console. From the blog post detailing the feature: “Over the past few years, we’ve focused on overcoming limitations of previous voice experiences. To achieve speed a
Amazon(s amzn) Web Services is the default, go-to IT infrastructure of choice for startups, right? Right. Er, well not always. No one disputes that AWS provides an impressive and ever-growing array of compute, storage and networking resources. Update: it just launched AWS Activate, a program to help startups build and run scalable AWS implementations, for example. Most nascent startups would be nu
Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is more useful — and he’s going to share his code with anyone who wants to see it. Along with a team of Stanford researchers that includes machine learning expert and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng, Socher has developed a compute
A team of professors that has created the in-memory Spark and Shark platforms for analyzing big data has raised nearly $13.9 million to commercialize those products. The company is still in stealth mode, but it’s called Databricks and Andreessen Horowitz led the round. The only information on the company’s website is, “We are using cutting-edge technology based on years of research to build next-g
At WWDC in June, Apple (s aapl) quietly announced iBeacon, one of the more prominent features of iOS 7. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, mentioned nothing about about it in the keynote, and Apple hasn’t provided any details about it; it was only seen on one slide in the WWDC keynote. Nor did Apple say anything about it during the iPhone event Tuesday. But I’m
Twitter has open sourced a system that aims to mitigate the tradeoffs between batch processing and stream processing by combining them into a hybrid system. In the case of Twitter, Hadoop handles batch processing, Storm handles stream processing, and the hybrid system is called Summingbird. It’s not a tool for every job, but it sounds pretty handy for those it’s designed to address. Twitter’s blog
The federal government sent a strong signal to Bitcoin traders earlier this year when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seized an account belonging to Mt. Gox, the most popular exchange for people to buy and sell the crypto-currency. It was unclear at the time just how much currency the government confiscated. But a new filing in Baltimore federal court (embedded below) shows the feds seize
Google (s goog) silently did something revolutionary on Thursday. It open sourced a tool called word2vec, prepackaged deep-learning software designed to understand the relationships between words with no human guidance. Just input a textual data set and let underlying predictive models get to work learning. “This is a really, really, really big deal,” said Jeremy Howard, president and chief scient
Microsoft (s msft) has developed a big data framework called REEF (a graciously simple acronym for Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) that the company intends to open source in about a month. REEF is designed to run on top of YARN, the next-generation resource manager for Hadoop, and is particularly well suited for building machine learning jobs. Microsoft Technical Fellow and CTO of Inform
“We want to apply data to every decision. We want to be a very data-driven company.” It’s a sentiment you hear echoed wherever you turn in Silicon Valley, at least since Google became one of the world’s most-powerful companies. This particular quote comes from Airbnb Vice President of Engineering Mike Curtis, who joined the popular apartment-sharing startup almost six months ago after almost two y
The assault on the enterprise data warehouse market carries on, with the latest challenge coming in the form of a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup called Treasure Data. The company, which offers a combination Hadoop and data warehouse service hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud, has raised $5 million from Sierra Ventures. Sierra’s past investments in the data warehouse space include Teradat
Spotify has long argued that it isn’t killing music sales, but is rather reducing piracy — and the company now has some numbers to back that claim up: This week, Spotify published a report that shows that piracy in the Netherlands has gone down just as Spotify has become more popular in the country. The report is authored by Spotify’s director of economics Will Page, who joined the company last fa
Ever wonder how Pinterest keeps track of which users are following which other users, and what your interests are? Well, wonder no more: The company detailed the architecture behind its combination user-and-interest graph in post on Friday morning. Here are the highlights: The database stores a variety of information about each user, including who they follow (explicitly and implicitly), what boar
Tod Nielsen, who helped lead the charge on VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as a service, has switched PaaS providers, joining Heroku as CEO. The last we heard in January, Nielsen was on his way from VMware(s vmw) to its Pivotal spinoff, where he reported to CEO Paul Maritz. The top slot at Heroku has been empty since the departure of Byron Sebastian in September, although Sebastian’s title was se
Currently, the bulk of Amazon(s amzn) EC2 instances run on Ubuntu Linux. Now, just in time for the the Red Hat Summit, it appears Red Hat(s rhat) would like change that and is partnering with Amazon to offer a free tier of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Web Services. There has been a free tier of the AWS service for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) running Amazon Linux or other “unpaid” versions o
IBM(S IBM) helped propel SQL, Linux and Java into the mainstream, and now it’s looking to do the same for MongoDB. The company said it’s working with MongoDB creator 10gen on a new standard that will let mobile apps built atop the NoSQL database connect with data stored in business-critical systems. At its core, the new standard — which encompasses the MongoDB API, data representation (BSON), quer
At a conference for developers at Facebook (s fb) headquarters on Thursday, engineers working for the social networking giant revealed that it’s using a new homemade query engine called Presto to do fast interactive analysis on its already enormous 250-petabyte-and-growing data warehouse. More than 850 Facebook employees use Presto every day, scanning 320 TB each day, engineer Martin Traverso said
When the first version of the highly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution came out in 2004, the first bug listed for fixing was never going to be an easy one: it was nothing less than the dethroning of Microsoft(s msft) as the market leader in the new desktop PC operating system space. As the report read, “this is a bug which Ubuntu and other [open-source] projects are meant to fix”. That was then. L
Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer thinks that what Blogger did for Google, Tumblr could do for her aging Internet company — make it relevant and a major player on the modern web. And for that she is apparently willing to spend a billion dollars (or perhaps higher) in order to buy the New York-based social publishing and sharing platform. The news of the pending deal was first reported by AllThin
Wikidata, a centralized structured data repository for facts and Wikimedia’s first big new project in the last 7 years, is now feeding the foundation’s main project, Wikipedia. The Wikidata project was kicked off around a year ago by the German chapter of Wikimedia, which is still steering its gradual development. For Wikipedia, the advantage is simple and powerful — if there’s a central, machine-
There was a lot going on at the OpenStack Summit, where a couple thousand of the open-source cloud faithful gathered this week. Here are my main takeaways. 1: Customer-to-vendor ratio is getting better. But just a bit. Tuesday’s keynotes featured real, live OpenStack users Bloomberg, Comcast(s cmcsa), HubSpot and Best Buy(s bby). Not bad. Bloomberg’s Pravir Chandra said his team set some high goal
As you might have heard before if you read McKinsey reports, the New York Times or just about any technology news site, data scientists are in high demand. Heck, the Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st century. But landing a gig as a data scientist isn’t easy — especially a top-notch gig at a major web or e-commerce company where merely talented people are a dime a dozen.
When Flipboard recently announced it was opening up its platform to enable users to create their own magazines, I was surprised by the low-key reaction by the publishing industry. It wasn’t a particularly busy news day but still there was a fairly neutral vibe throughout the coverage – as if it was of no particular consequence. Yet after I plowed through what little there was, visions of icebergs
If you’re doing any sort of social-media application, you might want to take note of what Facebook just built. The company has created a benchmarking tool called LinkBench that measures the performance of databases tasked with serving graph-structured data, which, presumably, is the lifeblood of every startup around that’s concerned with who’s connected to whom. Although, of all LinkBench’s featur
Now this is cool: A group of web hackers has built a P2P-based CDN that crowdsources the delivery of data on a website with the help of a bit of Javascript. PeerCDN as the project is called, is based on WebRTC, an emerging technology that’s been built to facilitate real-time communication like voice and video chat in the browser without the need for any plugin. From the PerCDN website: “PeerCDN au
Google (s GOOG) today launched Keep, an app that allows you to save things, clip stuff from the web, hoard notes and what not and put them all onto your Google Drive. Yup, you guessed it — it is an imitation to Evernote and many other such applications. It is a good thing that Google has decided to compete with the likes of Evernote — it validates their market. It might actually be good, or even b
Amazon (s AMZN) is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindle blog Tuesday. It can be integrated into WordPress blogs as well. The Washington Post, Time magazine and the blog Boing Boing are already using the button. Amazon presents “Send to Kindle” as an alternative to read-it-later services like Pocket and In
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