Columnar launches to redefine data connectivity with Arrow-powered ADBC drivers

Columnar, a startup founded by core Apache Arrow developers, launched today with $4 million to accelerate data connectivity using Arrow-based drivers. Bessemer Venture Partners led the company’s seed ...

CRM Developer: The Invisible Architect behind Smarter Customer Connections

The fast changing digital economy also sees business increasingly discover that it is not enough to sell products in order to become successful, it is necessary to establish relationships. Each […] ...
Education Week

AI Won’t Replace Teachers—But Teachers Who Use AI Will Change Teaching

Each time a new technology emerges, we hear familiar warnings: It will eliminate jobs, undermine expertise, or destabilize society. Artificial intelligence is no exception. A recent Pew Research ...

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in ...
TechWell

Choosing a Storage Engine in MySQL Database

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...
Harvard Business Review

How Gen AI Can Create More Time for Leadership

Leaders today are facing a crisis of employee engagement and trust in company leadership. According to Gallup, U.S. employee engagement dropped to 31% in 2024, the lowest level in a decade, with 17% ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
Los Angeles Times

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...

How the internet and Wi-Fi work: A guide to connections, data and the cloud

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...
Computer Weekly

AI will create a better world, says Oracle’s Ellison

Artificial intelligence (AI) was predictably front and centre at Oracle’s revamped and rebranded customer event – which changed its name to AI World from Cloud World in a last-minute switch-up just a ...
Reuters

Data centre operator DayOne aims to raise over $1 billion, sources say

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Oct 16 (Reuters) - DayOne, a global data centre operator affiliated with GDS Holdings (9698.HK), opens new tab, one of China's largest data centre operators, is seeking to raise ...
TechCrunch

Satellites found exposing unencrypted data, including phone calls and some military comms

Security researchers have discovered that as many as half of all geostationary satellites in Earth’s orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate, and military information, making this ...