Penguin: China’s Zillow alternative goes open source to scale a 10 billion node graph database

China’s Zillow alternative goes open source to scale a 10 billion node graph database With more than two billion real estate listings, KE Holdings’ cloud search architects struggled to keep up with the explosive growth, with added pressure from its imminent summer 2020 IPO. To improve performance of search results against the backdrop of massive …

Stephen E. Arnold: Exclusive Interview with DataWalk CTO

Exclusive: Interview with DataWalk’s CTO Chris Westphal Who Guides an Analytics Rocket Ship The company has leap-frogged a number of investigative solutions, including IBM’s Analyst’s Notebook and the much-hyped Palantir Technologies’ Gotham products. Read long illustrated interview transcript. 

Stephen E. Arnold: Mobile Data Costs Around the World

Mobile Data Costs Around the World Sometimes it takes looking at the cost of certain services in other countries before we decide whether our situation is acceptable. No, I am not talking about healthcare—Cable.co.uk has published “Worldwide Mobile Data Pricing: The Cost of 1GB of Mobile Data in 228 Countries.” The interactive map makes it …

Stephen E. Arnold: Deep Fakes and Data Losses

Deepfakes and Other AI Threats As AI technology matures it has greater and greater potential to facilitate bad actors. Now, researchers at the University College London have concluded that falsified audio and video content poses the greatest danger. The university announces its results on its news page in, “‘Deepfakes’ Ranked as Most Serious AI Crime …