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- Fear no more! Drone shows create firework-like light displays that are fun for the whole family, pups included
- Could Intel® Shooting Star™ drones be the secret to perfect festivities? We asked Brad Whalen, one of Intel’s drone light show project managers, what it’s like to tour the world with this innovative new technology and how it could impact even our nation’s brightest (and loudest) holiday. Ear-friendly entertainment If you haven’t seen a drone...
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- Death on First Street. In My Little Town.
- A few weeks ago, I was at a conference in the downtown of a small U.S. city. The subject was retail, and, specifically, the future of downtown retail. Brick-and-mortar retail. It was the day after the United States Supreme Court ruled (South Dakota vs. Wayfair Inc.) that Internet retailers can be required to collect sales...
read more - Applications on Intel® Omni-Path Architecture Run 4.6 Percent Faster in 2018 than 2017—with Spectre and Meltdown Mitigations
- Our customers have asked us what impact the Spectre and Meltdown issues are expected to have on computing and communications performance in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters—especially regarding Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) fabrics. We know it’s important for our customers to have access to accurate, useful, and complete data to assess the potential impact...
read more - Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Help World Bank Team Create Image-Recognition Models for Crowdsourced Photos
- AI has made big strides in the past several years. E-commerce sites recommend future purchases based on past purchases, Alexa* and other digital assistants respond to our inquiries, and social media platforms help us organize and tag our photos for easier search. More and more organizations are bringing the power of AI to bear on...
read more - Hybrid Cloud—Know What’s Under the Hood
- Hybrid clouds are a little like hybrid cars. Hybrid cars have two operating modes that work together seamlessly to get you to a destination, but to the driver it all looks and acts the same. Similarly, hybrid clouds let you deploy applications into an on-premises private cloud or into linked public clouds—whichever best suits business...
read more - Intel at SAP SAPPHIRE 2018: Delivering Persistent Memory to SAP HANA*
- SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG (Americas’ SAP Users’ Group), held June 4-7 in Orlando, was an unlikely place to run into a rock star. Not only did Justin Timberlake perform on the last evening of the conference, but Jon Bon Jovi spoke at one of the keynotes. Another session featured a panel of Winter Olympic...
read more - Lenovo’s Secret HPC Weapon: Neptune’s Trident
- In the struggle for data center ascendance, the forces of electricity and heat do battle with forces of density and computational power with each step up the Moore’s Law ladder. As more cores are added to each successive CPU release, computational power increases. However, the electricity needed also increases, which produces more heat. Taming these...
read more - Stress Free: Intel’s Windows* 10 Self-Service Upgrade
- At Intel, we made a self-service Microsoft Windows* 10 in-place upgrade available for our employees. Using this process, we’ve successfully upgraded more than 50,000 PCs, and we expect to double this by the end of 2018. At that point, nearly our entire fleet of PCs will have gone through this process. Before we introduced our...
read more - Deploy Anywhere, Anytime, Any-scale Visualization with Intel® Select Solutions
- The HPC community is exploring new frameworks and approaches to converge simulation and machine learning workloads at massive-scale. At the same time, it is critical to help researchers make sense of increasingly large data sets and complex results. Sadly, the fastest supercomputer in the world is effectively useless if people cannot make sense of the...
read more - Faster, Smarter Alpha Market Prediction with Artificial Intelligence at Scale
- We are entering an era that will harness technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Virtual/Augmented Reality to unleash the power of data and drive industry transformation. Together, these new technologies will reshape the way various industries collect, analyze, and act on data across their entire value chains—ultimately bringing enterprise productivity...
read more - Honor and Pride: Veterans Share Why they Chose Intel as their Next Mission
- Veterans have always been key contributors to Intel’s success. Employees with a military background have often attained skills during their service that uniquely qualify them for several positions at Intel—both in engineering and other support functions such as finance, HR, IT, sales and supply chain. We asked three veteran colleagues why they chose Intel as...
read more - Digital Phenotyping and Healthcare
- Healthcare is getting better and better at predicting patient outcomes. AI is getting more adept at interpreting and offering insight from diagnostic data. However, it’s not just vital statistics, genomics, and traditional health data that can offer insight. Digital data can also offer insight into patient behaviors and health. Information from fitness trackers, mobile phones,...
read more - An Intel insider’s perspective: More than just a PC company
- We’re known for our chips, but Intel is driving the future of groundbreaking technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and autonomous driving. At Intel, our passion for transformative innovation is impacting businesses across every industry, and even society itself. Our legacy is built by a large global network of incredibly talented people. They are...
read more - AI for Enterprise: How to get started from concept to deployment
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot IT topic today, producing new and exciting results in academic research areas and across real-world deployments. So how do enterprises create value by implementing AI solutions? Many organizations are struggling to take the first step because the journey seems long and complicated. It doesn’t have to be. With some...
read more - Smart City Era Promises Big Improvement for Urban Ecosystems
- Connected technology is ushering in a new era of “Smart Cities”, which promises to improve the quality of life for billions of people around the world. Smart cities — which are using technology to make urban areas safer, more efficient, and more livable — represent the transformative power of the Internet of Things. Now, as...
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