O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. We ought to heed Collingridge’s warning that technology evolves in uncertain ways. It’s also about ensuring that value from AI is widely shared by preventing premature consolidation.

Social Media 126

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 126

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. They also started asking us to give them access to the technology that powers Alexa, so that they can add a conversational interface (using voice or text) to their mobile apps. Amazon Lex. Amazon Polly.

AWS 153

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 153

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS 84

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 84

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

Blockchain 80

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 80

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless frameworks like Nuclio let you utilize cloud technology to reduce your workload, improve scaling and save money on unused resources. Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rely on blockchains, but web developers are just realizing the full potential of this technology.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

Tech News Gather

JULY 14, 2022

Technology is continually developing, and the people are in the addiction to smartphones. Previously, with the help of the internet, various brands’ websites conducted the business. Therefore, it encourages many businesses to feel the importance of the technology to stay in touch with their customers.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development Retail Small Business 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2014

By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. Retail firms are not seeing their businesses grow rapidly because of technology, they're seeing their businesses change underneath them because of it.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Ecommerce Media 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Large preview ).

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

The global impact has affected almost every major industry, resulting in closed bank branches , ground stops on flights , failures for retail point-of-sale devices, and, unfortunately, much more. Many organizations are struggling to determine the extent of the issue, and where dependencies exist with those impacted machines.

Airlines 334

Airlines Servers Retail Monitoring 334

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Second, the free form text formats and protocols that we’re accustomed to may be too informal and error prone for capturing and reporting facts at Internet scale.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Internet Internet 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. That’s why we had to mention Mina , senior front-end engineer at Slack, Sasstronaut , and a truly rare gem in technology. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

From optimizing its data center design to investing in purpose-built chips to implementing new cooling technologies, AWS is working on ways to increase the energy efficiency of its facilities to better serve our customers’ sustainability needs and the scaled use of AI.

AWS 98

AWS Energy Lambda Government 98