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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).

DARPA Scales Its Electronics Effort

April 13th, 2018 Comments Off on DARPA Scales Its Electronics Effort
The Pentagon’s top research agency is kicking off a multi-year effort to jumpstart U.S. electronics innovation with a July summit in Silicon Valley. The $1.5 billion Electronics Resurgence Initiative was launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last ...

Hacker Survey: Simple Attacks Breach Systems in a Day

April 11th, 2018 Comments Off on Hacker Survey: Simple Attacks Breach Systems in a Day
A security vendor survey of professional hackers finds that many are able to easily defeat “perimeter defenses” like firewalls, then pinpoint and steal critical data in less than a day. The findings also support the conclusion that high-profile security ...

Software Investments Propel IT Spending

April 10th, 2018 Comments Off on Software Investments Propel IT Spending
Enterprise software and infrastructure services continue to fuel the growth of global IT spending to levels not seen in a decade, according a new spending forecast. Gartner Inc. report this week that macroeconomic factors such as a weak U.S. ...

GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation

April 9th, 2018 Comments Off on GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation
Pending European data privacy rules that also address “automated decision-making” are increasingly seen as having a broad impact on enterprise deployment of AI applications, prompting a U.S.-based group to predict the rules will stymie development within the European Union. ...

Serverless Security Risks Surface

April 6th, 2018 Comments Off on Serverless Security Risks Surface
Emerging serverless frameworks that dispense with server management to run cloud-native workloads continue to gain traction in the enterprise while at the same time drawing scrutiny from security specialists who report a growing number of vulnerabilities as serverless applications ...

GitLab, Google Team to Automate Kubernetes Deployment

April 5th, 2018 Comments Off on GitLab, Google Team to Automate Kubernetes Deployment
GitLab, the open-source DevOps platform, is collaborating with Google Cloud to assist developers struggling to deploy the popular but complex Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. GitLab said this week it will offer native integration of it code collaboration platform with the ...

Ethics Moves Front and Center in AI Debate

April 4th, 2018 Comments Off on Ethics Moves Front and Center in AI Debate
The breakneck pace of machine intelligence development is prompting welcome assessments of the ethical implications of a technology that will have a profound effect on workers, consumers and most every other segment of society. With that sobering reality in ...

IoT Developers Look to Blockchain for Security

April 3rd, 2018 Comments Off on IoT Developers Look to Blockchain for Security
Securing the Internet of Things appears to have advanced well beyond default factory settings to include data and network security features baked into IoT components as well as comprehensive approaches such as blockchain cryptography. The latest study by an ...

Memory Demand Propels Booming Chip Market

March 29th, 2018 Comments Off on Memory Demand Propels Booming Chip Market
Chip makers have been scrambling to find new applications for their wares, focusing on the Internet of Things, big data and emerging machine learning applications requiring more processing power. For now, it looks like they are succeeding. Driven by ...

Blockchain Use Cases Grow, As Does Venture Funding

March 28th, 2018 Comments Off on Blockchain Use Cases Grow, As Does Venture Funding
The logistical and transactional advantages of blockchain technology could create more enterprise use cases based on the trusted sharing of data that eliminates third-party threats along with moves to develop industry standards that would fuel deployments, according to a ...
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