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The HUAWEI P30 Series made its debut at VivoCity in Singapore yesterday, where the phone was sold out by noon. Hundreds were in line to buy the the latest flagship in Huawei's photography-first smartphone family, with the first in line queuing as early as 9 pm the day before. Since its global launch in France last week, the Huawei P30 Series had become known for its integrated Leica Quad Camera, a world’s first, with industry-leading zoom capabilities and low-light performance. Francis Toh, decided to switch to Huawei after being convinced by his wife, Mrs Amy Toh, who has used the Huawei Mate 10 and P20 Pro. He said, “When I compared the images taken from my phone and my wife’s, I was very amazed with the detail and the difference was very obvious. I decided to follow the updates for the latest Huawei products so that I can plan my purchase ahead. I think what really makes the P30 Pro stand out for me is the low-light photography and zoom capabilities that no o...

Source: Huawei. Huawei AI Fabric and Cisco's networking solutions in the AI/ML scenario (Based on the Tolly test report). Huawei has announced at the Huawei China Eco-Partner Conference 2019 that its AI Fabric Intelligent and Lossless Data Center Network solution has undergone comparison test and verification by the Tolly Group. The test results showed that, in typical service scenarios for data centres that are oriented to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, Huawei AI Fabric has superior performance to competitive networking solutions. Huawei's Global Industry Vision (GIV) predicts the AI adoption rates will reach 86% by 2025 — and that leveraging AI to make decisions, reshape business models and ecosystems, and rebuild customer experiences will be a key driving force for adoption. Additionally, AI will also drive ICT infrastructure transformation. Tolly tested the data centre switch networking solutions from Huawei and ...

SAS announced a partnership with NVIDIA last month to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence (AI). The companies are collaborating across machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing, with NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA-X AI acceleration libraries, to support the core elements of SAS' AI offerings – leading to faster, more accurate insights. "AI is transforming business across industries," said Gavin Day, SAS Senior VP of Technology. "At the heart of AI-based transformation is advanced analytics. Powerful GPUs help speed the analysis and impact of AI by processing millions of mathematical operations very quickly. By partnering with NVIDIA, we combine our strengths to augment human intelligence and realise the true potential of AI." In a discussion on data science at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference 2019 , Day said SAS is talking to customers around the world in major industries, trying to get AI and machine learning out ...

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...