Trey Pascador, Author at Padtronics

Blockchain IoT startup Sensify Security joins Industrial Internet Consortium

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:52 AM UTC Sensify Security, a Palo Alto-based company that applies blockchain technology in cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently joined The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The company enables operators to control access …

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My online journalism Masters course is changing its name. Here's why

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MA student Alex Gamela took this image of the Telegraph newsroom during the first year of the MA My MA in Online Journalism has a new name: the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism. It’s still a course all about finding, publishing and distributing journalism online. So why the name change? Well, because what ‘online‘ …

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Germany's Software AG Adds Analytic Tools with Zementis Buyout

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Software AG, a German software giant with 4,300 employees, has acquired San Diego-based Zementis, a specialist in machine learning and data science. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a statement Friday, after the acquisition closed last week. Zementis CEO Michael Zeller co-founded the company in 2004 to help customers glean new insights from …

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Hill-Rom subsidiary offers home BP monitoring

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Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HRC) leaders announced Nov. 22 a subsidiary’s entrance into the connected home monitoring market with its new Welch Allyn Home™ Hypertension Program. According to the American Heart Association, one out of three adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure and approximately 46 percent of those don’t have their condition under control, …

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Uber bets on artificial intelligence with acquisition and new lab

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Comments Print Jeff Swensen/New York Times An Uber self-driving Ford Fusion rolled through the streets of Pittsburgh in September. By Mike Isaac New York Times December 06, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of …

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Does a better Uber rider tracking app signal the rise of Big Brother in tech?

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“Where are you?” It’s a question Uber drivers and passengers are all too familiar with in their attempts to coordinate a pickup location. The ride hailer hopes to solve this problem with a new policy that allows it to track a user’s location from the initiation of a trip up to five minutes after they reach …

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No one is going to use Microsoft's answer to the Amazon Echo

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The Amazon Echo, a $200 device that sits on your kitchen counter and silently judges everything you say, has been a surprise hit with consumers. Google has rushed its own version to market, Apple is said to be working on something similar, and now it looks like Microsoft is going to half-heartedly join the fray. …

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Microsoft Azure IoT Makes Connecting to Apache Kafka Easy

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A new open-source connector enables businesses to build IoT applications that gather and make sense of mountain of data from disparate sources. Building an Azure-backed internet of things (IoT) application that uses the popular open-source Apache Kafka stream ingestion technology just got easier.Like RabbitMQ, Kafka is considered an IoT application building block for enterprises. It …

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mHealth and Home Monitoring – 7th Edition

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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Executive summaryThe number of remotely monitored patients grew by 51 percent to 4.9 million in 2015 as the market entered a growth phase fuelled by rising market acceptance in several key verticals. This number includes all patients enrolled in mHealth care programs in which connected medical devices are …

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Overnight Tech: FCC eyes cybersecurity role | More trouble for spectrum auction | Google seeks …

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FCC EYES CYBERSECURITY: Sen. Mark WarnerMark WarnerOvernight Cybersecurity: Watchdog seeks release of Clinton aide’s deposition Overnight Tech: FCC eyes cybersecurity role | More trouble for spectrum auction | Google seeks ‘conservative outreach’ director Overnight Finance: Trump adviser softens tone on NAFTA | Funding bill to be released Tuesday | GOP leader won’t back Trump tariff plan …

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