covid 19

Future Virtual Reality

Zwift, 2021 And Google DeepDream

BBC Click   looks at virtual cycling and explores the issue of cheating in the world of online racing.

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Covid Pandemic Future

BBC Click on the WFH Boom

The pandemic has changed the nature of office work. BBC Click talks to Zoom about the future of home working and visits an AI insect farm that’s producing animal feed in a smart and sustainable way.

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Covid Pandemic Data Visualization Databricks

Encoding multi-layered Vega-Lite COVID-19 Geodata visualizations

Visualizations are a powerful tool for communicating results to end-users and stakeholders. Their development and life-cycle management are no less challenging than the underlying processes producing the results they communicate. Databricks explains how this is helping with the COVID pandemic. Our team overcomes these challenges by leveraging Vega-Lite to encode visualizations as JSON objects and […]

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Covid Pandemic

Why Coronavirus May Change How Big Tech Works

CNBC takes a look at what’s next for the workspace based on what the big tech companies are doing. Tech offices, from Apple’s 2.8 million square-foot “spaceship” campus, to Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters complete with a botanical garden, have always pushed the envelope of office space. But coronavirus may make this type of work environment […]

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AI Covid Pandemic Guest Post

AI Against COVID-19 – How Would IT Will Overcome This Virus?

The following is a guest post by Amanda Jerelyn. She is currently working as an IT Manager at Dissertation Assistance. She is a working-from-home single mother who has significant experience of working with AI from her previous job. Now she spends most of her time blogging about her experiences and sharing them with a like-minded […]

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Azure Bioinformatics Covid Pandemic

Public Health Monitoring for Modern Data Platform

Erik Roll from BlueGranite steps through the current 2020 health outlook and environmental factors that impact organizational data. How is your data estate impacted, and how can the modern data platform in Azure be used to aid organizations considering current events?

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Bioinformatics Covid Pandemic Databricks

Building a COVID-19 Project Recommendation System using MLflow

Databricks just livestreamed this tech talk earlier today. Developers and data scientists around the world have developed tens of thousands of open source projects to help track, understand, and address the spread of COVID-19. Given the sheer volume, finding a project to contribute to can prove challenging. To make this easier, we built a recommendation […]

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Covid Pandemic Data Driven

If Remote Work Becomes Commonplace, What Happens to Real Estate in Big Cities?

SalesForce, Microsoft, and Twitter have all extended their work from home policies either indefinitely or for the remainder of the year. To say that housing is expensive in the Bay Area would be an understatement. Frank ponders what will happen to the real estate market if you only go to the office once or twice […]

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Azure Covid Pandemic

The Current State of IT in the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this episode of The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson, Brad and Simon discuss the current state of IT in the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about how organizations are moving from a state of response to COVID-19 and new work from home practices to a sustained hybrid-workplace model. In this new model IT will need […]

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