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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organisation, is developing solutions to drive adoption of Blockchain. The initiative will use technologies from Microsoft and R3, an enterprise Blockchain software firm. TCS sees the need for horizontal cross-industry platforms on which scalable solutions can be rapidly developed. The company will offer a platform for hybrid cloud and another for microservices architecture on the Microsoft Azure Blockchain cloud. At the same time R3’s Corda Enterprise Blockchain platform will allow TCS to quickly develop and deliver application layer solutions. TCS is developing five horizontal Blockchain platforms: for digital identity, track and trace, assets in common, asset monetisation, and tokenisation. Across these platforms, TCS has already identified numerous solution opportunities and is  leveraging customer and partner networks to build them out. Platforms developed through the alliance be equi...

Source: NVIDIA. A data science workstation. NVIDIA has teamed with the world’s leading OEMs and system builders to deliver workstations designed to help data scientists, analysts and engineers become more productive. Data science problems such as predicting outcomes for project management, monitoring the health of equipment, and flight simulation.involve data on a massive scale and require large-scale processing capabilities. The new NVIDIA-powered data science workstations are purpose-built for data analytics, machine learning and deep learning, and provide the extreme computational power and tools required to prepare, process and analyse massive amounts of data. This will allow users to make better business predictions, faster.  NVIDIA-powered workstations for data science are based on a reference architecture consisting of dual high-end NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs and NVIDIA CUDA-X AI accelerated data science software, such as RAPIDS, TensorFlow, PyTorch and Caffe. CUDA...

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has begun field trials of a new support service that uses data from real-time visualisation of soil components during agricultural land analysis to diagnose soil characteristics and propose improvements.  The aim of this service is to rapidly identify variations in soil components within a tract of agricultural land, and to help improve agricultural productivity and lower environmental impacts by enabling precise soil cultivation through waste-free addition of fertilisers and other soil improvement agents.  This field trial is being carried out on farmland in Mie Prefecture in Japan cooperation with Tokai Trading Company, which has a wide range of knowhow related to agricultural machinery and fertilisers, as well as extensive contacts in the farming industry. Toyota is pursuing various ways of applying its automotive production management and process improvement knowhow to address issues faced by agriculture, such as the ageing of the farming ...

• China, Korea, and India among the top countries hosting DDoS weapons • Internet of Things (IoT) devices using machine-to-machine communications protocol increasingly exploitable A total of 23,487,185 distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons are currently in the wild, according to A10 Networks’ latest State of DDoS Weapons Report. Weapons are hosted in countries with a dense Internet-connected population. China and the US currently host the largest number of DDoS weapons, with 6,114,312 and 2,636,103 weapons respectively. Other Asian countries hosting DDoS weaponry include Korea at 872,744 weapons, and India with 615,239 weapons. The study found that the number of connected devices is growing faster than the number of connected people. According to A10 Networks, it has taken over 25 years since the birth of the Internet to connect 55% of the 7.6 billion people on the planet. This is a linearised rate of 4.6 people per second.  The IoT is growing at a rate of 127 connec...

Qualtrics , the experience management provider, has launched Qualtrics Brand Tracking, a brand monitoring solution on the Qualtrics Experience Management (XM) Platform. "Over the past year, we've been partnering closely with hundreds of brands across the world to help design and run their brand tracking programmes on the XM Platform. With built-in expert methodology, guided program setup, and dashboards on every device, Qualtrics Brand Tracking is now available to empower every organisation from startups to billion dollar enterprises, making tracking and optimising their brand easier than ever," said Kelly Waldher, VP of Brand Experience, Qualtrics. Results are delivered through live, automated mobile and web dashboards. Organisations no longer have to wait months for critical insights. With Qualtrics' pre-built programmes and dashboards, anyone in the organisation can launch a brand tracker and start seeing results in hours.