Pokeman Go has been a raging success. But its launch was marred by frequent downtimes and dropped connections. In a recent chat at the Google Cloud Platform Next Conference, Niantic CTO Phil Keslin talked about the "hair on fire" experience where the team had to firefight and upgrade key components on the live production system in order to handle the unexpected surge in new users joining in. Among the various upgrades made to the system, Niantic had to replace the network load balancer with a much more sophisticated HTTP/S load balancing system that could handle a larger overall throughput and offer faster connections. Keslin says that this timely upgrade made it possible for his team to launch in Japan without an incident although the number of new user signups at this point was triple what it was during their earlier US launch.

Big data and artificial intelligence are driving the development of China's e-commerce giant JD.com Inc, and are expected to help the company provide better user experience, reduce costs and improve efficiency. Zhang Chen, chief technology officer at JD, said: "China is far ahead of other countries in the use of mobile internet. Now mobile internet usage also exceeds PC use, which indicates users' changing habits. So we need to figure out the users' real needs. "So, to better serve consumers, we must dig deeper into big data.

Nvidia cofounder Chris Malachowsky is eating a sausage omelet and sipping burnt coffee in a Denny's off the Berryessa overpass in San Jose. It was in this same dingy diner in April 1993 that three young electrical engineers–Malachowsky, Curtis Priem and Nvidia's current CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang–started a company devoted to making specialized chips that would generate faster and more realistic graphics for video games. East San Jose was a rough part of town back then–the front of the restaurant was pocked with bullet holes from people shooting at parked cop cars–and no one could have guessed that the three men drinking endless cups of coffee were laying the foundation for a company that would define computing in the early 21st century in the same way that Intel did in the 1990s. "There was no market in 1993, but we saw a wave coming," Malachowsky says. "There's a California surfing competition that happens in a five-month window every year. When they see some type of wave phenomenon or storm in Japan, they tell all the surfers to show up in California, because there's going to be a wave in two days. We were at the beginning."

We've already published the top big data presentations on slideshare, as well as great Github list of public data sets, or top machine learning projects, or top R packages. We've asked our readers to share a list of top Data Science videos on YouTube. Here, we share a list of top data science presentations from VideoLectures.net. These presentations received 5 to 20 times fewer page views than those on Slideshare, because they are far more technical, and attract a different, truly technical audience. You can check the entire list here.

Infrastructure investment is on the forefront of political agendas around the world. From the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) spearheaded by China to the pro-infrastructure themes that united an otherwise divisive presidential campaign in the United States, the policy focus is on transportation, telecommunications, utilities and so on around us. The expected surge in such infrastructure projects is estimated to fill a gap of $8 trillion across Asia alone, and around $1 trillion in the U.S. But this policy spotlight must also now be lifted above us to outer space, where newspace industries are building, extending and connecting a space-based infrastructure to the planet as never before. Newspace is taking it another step forward, transforming the prospects for the economics, societal and national security domains.

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Big data collected from customer behaviour from all strata of the Internet has added valuable information to improve sales force and customer services. With the analytical power of Machine Learning, the mass of data can be transformed into thin causalities. For example, the Artificial Intelligence algorithms are able to review the complexity of Big Data and simplify the client's information through accurate analysis of the buying journey. Since its first public use in the late 1990s, Machine Learning continues to be discussed. AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google DeepMind in London to play the board game Go, represents one of the most notable examples of deep learning; that is to say a machine now is able to independently analyze the amounts of data with extremely high performance.

Episode 9: For the past five years, Russia's been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, hacker hunters, and, of course, a few bears. The best mouse I've ever met lives in Akademgorodok, a Siberian city about an hour's drive from Novosibirsk. The mouse is not alive. It's a 2-foot statue that stands watch over a genetic engineering laboratory. Frozen in time, the mouse wears glasses and a lab coat, using a pair of knitting needles to stitch together strands of DNA.

No more than 15 years ago we were watching sci-fi films that boggled the mind and tested the limits of our imagination. Facial recognition technology, fingerprint biometrics, intelligent phones and computers that talked to people, functional artificial intelligence; all of this seemed worlds away when Tom Cruise and Will Smith were in their action movie prime. The technology dreamed up for those blockbuster productions is the same as what we see entering our reality today. Seemingly, it's taken no more time than the transition from child to adult. To the average person, it still feels unimaginable that innovation like artificial intelligence (AI) is on our doorstep.

COLUMBUS, OHIO – A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University might have been inspired by the Islamic State group and a former al-Qaida leader, investigators said Wednesday. Law enforcement officials said that it's too soon to say the rampage that hurt 11 people on Monday was terrorism. They said they aren't aware of any direct contact between the Islamic State group and the attacker, Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan. "We only believe he may have been inspired" by the group, said Angela Byers, the top FBI agent overseeing federal investigations in the southern half of Ohio. Artan also might have been influenced by Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric who took a leadership role in al-Qaida before being killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike in Yemen, Byers said.