“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It currently saves the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person.
Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It currently saves the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person.
Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It currently saves the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person.
Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
“[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer research surveys.”
Original source: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
“[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer research surveys.”
Original source: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
“[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer research surveys.”
Original source: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain
A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner:
‘When it comes to supply chains, Valdes believes that blockchains could play an important coordinating role. “If you have a fragmented business ecosystem, with many parties who don’t know each other but need to do business, then they could collaborate through a blockchain,” he says. But there’s a catch. “It’s a ‘boil the ocean’ problem,” he says, meaning that it’ll take fundamental shifts in an industry for adoption to take place.
Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain
A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner:
‘When it comes to supply chains, Valdes believes that blockchains could play an important coordinating role. “If you have a fragmented business ecosystem, with many parties who don’t know each other but need to do business, then they could collaborate through a blockchain,” he says. But there’s a catch. “It’s a ‘boil the ocean’ problem,” he says, meaning that it’ll take fundamental shifts in an industry for adoption to take place.
Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain
A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner:
‘When it comes to supply chains, Valdes believes that blockchains could play an important coordinating role. “If you have a fragmented business ecosystem, with many parties who don’t know each other but need to do business, then they could collaborate through a blockchain,” he says. But there’s a catch. “It’s a ‘boil the ocean’ problem,” he says, meaning that it’ll take fundamental shifts in an industry for adoption to take place.
Link: Walmart's Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data
Verifying claims (like organic) and tracking in the supply gain, but not explanation of how or how you trust the people who made the claims.
Original source: Walmart’s Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data