Tech Blitz: Einstein, Zombies, AI & the Internet on Brains

By | Industry Trends, Technology
The collision of two black holes

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Once again we revisit the tech highlights of the month, looking for news that’s interesting to you in the journals, websites, newsletters and other online sources.

Our Tech Blitz blog is intended to feature a round-up of the latest news, announcements, opinions and insights. We especially are interested in sharing news about software development, self-service business intelligence and the tools used to implement them. Read More

Business Intelligence Meets the HoloLens

By | BI Innovation, Microsoft, Technology

HoloLens demo at WPC15Will augmented reality be the next big thing for data visualization? If Microsoft has anything to say about it, yes, it will.

Since this blog first published in July 2015,  much has happened – but Microsoft still hasn’t released a retail version. Now it appears that it won’t be until 2019 that we’ll see the next version of the HoloLens, according to an article by Tom Warren of The Verge. Yep, that’s three years after developers first got their hands on it.

Up until recently the only way you could see what people using the HoloLens were doing was by attending a Microsoft conference that featured it. But now, according to Warren’s coworker Lauren Goode, Microsoft has released its “spectator view” as an open source solution. Check it out on the HoloLens GitHub page. Read More

Which is Better – In-Memory or In-Chip Analytics?

By | Business Intelligence, Technology

Intel DDR4 memoryLong gone are the days of a meager 4GB of RAM on your desktop or server. The 64-bit architecture of chips and cheap memory prices make stuffing a computer with as much RAM as possible not too expensive a proposition, though DDR4 doesn’t come cheap.

The advantage of having more and faster RAM will be faster internal data transfers, which benefits in-memory applications such as databases – and business intelligence. Read More

Prospective HoloLens Developers Must Wait

By | For Developers, IT and Engineering, Microsoft, Technology

Microsoft HoloLens in the family room.Microsoft introduced its HoloLens at Build 2015 to much excitement and fanfare, but it’s still far too early to tell when the augmented reality hardware and the Windows Holographic platform needed to run it will be a reality.

Developers professed great interest in working with the augmented reality platform to create their own applications. But they want to get their hands on a development kit now. The Microsoft HoloLens website reveals no timetable on its release. All it says is, “We’re working hard to release development tools. In the meantime, you can start by building Windows universal apps and ramping up on Unity.Read More