A group of former Facebook and Dropbox engineers is developing a service for debugging complex systems and answering ad hoc questions in real time. Honeycomb, currently in an open beta cycle, is a SaaS platform that reduces MTTR (mean time to repair) for outages and degraded services, identifies bugs and performance regressions, isolates… Read More Ex-Facebook, Dropbox engineers offer debugging as a service
Most organizations have well established procedures for vetting and sharing computer code. But what about data analysis? Important findings are often held in “a mixed bag of presentations, emails, and Google Docs,” two members of Airbnb’s engineering and data science team blogged at Medium in February. When someone in the organization wants to locate and… Read More Airbnb open sources data-science-sharing platform
Ford Motor Co. said today that its next-generation advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will enable vehicles to automatically back into parking spaces, detect objects in the road to avoid collisions and prevent wrong-way driving. Ford already offers a plethora of ADAS features, including adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning, lane departure warning with land-keeping assist,… Read More Your next Ford will be able to back itself into a parking space, steer around traffic
Microsoft has revealed a Unified Update Platform that’s designed to make it easier for devices to upgrade from one version of Windows 10 to another. The UUP encompasses a set of behind-the-scenes changes in Windows 10 that reduce the processing power needed to update, shrink the size of update files, and streamline updates on Windows… Read More Microsoft will shrink and speed up Windows 10 updates
Google poured scorn on European Union allegations it skewed shopping search results to favor its own services and said regulators have failed to see that the search-engine giant is competing head on with e-commerce giants Amazon.com and eBay. Google said Thursday that the EU’s allegations lack evidence and would ultimately harm users in favor “of… Read More Google Attacks EU Antitrust Case, Says It ‘Doesn’t Fit the Reality’
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