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George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

5G is Going Cloud Native

September 28th, 2020 Comments Off on 5G is Going Cloud Native
Cloud infrastructure vendors are lining to collaborate with telecommunications and network equipment partners to help roll out 5G services, aiming for what one public cloud vendor dubs “carrier-grade cloud.” For instance, a 5G network collaboration between IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) ...

Globalfoundries Sees Pandemic ‘Pulling’ Chip Demand

September 25th, 2020 Comments Off on Globalfoundries Sees Pandemic ‘Pulling’ Chip Demand
Globalfoundries, the custom semiconductor manufacturer, announced advancements on several fronts this week, including the latest version of its FDX platform aimed at low-power, edge devices as well as a chip design verification kit that incorporates machine learning tools. The ...

DoD’s Early Warning System Targets New Enemy: COVID-19

September 24th, 2020 Comments Off on DoD’s Early Warning System Targets New Enemy: COVID-19
Artificial intelligence technology has been enlisted in a Defense Department research effort to develop an early warning system for identifying infectious diseases. Recent COVID-19 outbreaks in the confined quarters of U.S. Navy ships illustrate the scale of the problem ...

AI Developers Adjust to ‘New Normal’

September 24th, 2020 Comments Off on AI Developers Adjust to ‘New Normal’
The pandemic has shifted the focus of disrupted enterprise AI and machine learning projects from financial analysis and consumer insight to cost cutting and customer engagement, according to a vendor survey that also forecasts increased AI spending. The assessment ...

Kubernetes Adopters Ramp DevSecOps

September 23rd, 2020 Comments Off on Kubernetes Adopters Ramp DevSecOps
The faster Kubernetes deployments are scaled, the bigger a target they become for hackers probing for security vulnerabilities. With security incidents rising sharply, Kubernetes-native container security platform vendor StackRox reports that 44 percent of respondents to a recent poll ...

PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck

September 21st, 2020 Comments Off on PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck
PagerDuty Inc., the operations management specialist, is acquiring enterprise DevOps startup RunDeck in a cash-stock transaction valued at $100 million. San Francisco-based PagerDuty said Monday (Sept. 21) the acquisition would be paid for with about 60 percent in cash ...

Industrial-Strength Private Wireless Nets Emerge

September 21st, 2020 Comments Off on Industrial-Strength Private Wireless Nets Emerge
Network equipment makers are zeroing in on emerging 5G wireless capabilities increasingly seen as the backbone for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Those 5G equipment vendors are shifting their focus from consumer to enterprise applications as manufacturers implement ...

Microsoft Data Sub Yields Reliability Gains

September 18th, 2020 Comments Off on Microsoft Data Sub Yields Reliability Gains
Microsoft said its two-year trial run with an underwater datacenter is a concept that holds water. The company commenced Project Natick in 2015 during a proof-of-principle deployment in the Pacific Ocean. It launched its latest prototype in 2018 to ...

List of Kubernetes Tools, Defenses Grows

September 17th, 2020 Comments Off on List of Kubernetes Tools, Defenses Grows
Container tools and security fixes for Kubernetes cluster orchestrator continued to be rolled out as the microservices ecosystem evolves. With Kubernetes security concerns growing as deployments scale, container security partners NeuVector and Sonatype this week released centralized container defenses ...

Calls Grow Louder for US Chip Revival

September 17th, 2020 Comments Off on Calls Grow Louder for US Chip Revival
Technology industry lobbyists are capitalizing on the growing Washington consensus for a next-generation industrial policy that funds basic research in foundational silicon technology as a way to compete with China in strategic markets like AI, 5G and quantum computing. ...
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