Week at a Glance (18th - 24th Nov. ‘17): Top News from Data Science

As with last week, clouds continue to show off their AI capabilities this week, Google joins the conversational AI chatter, DataOps starts gaining traction, self-driving cars are the flavor of the week as the race to capture the autonomous vehicle market heats up. Here is a quick rundown of news in the data science space worth your attention!

News Highlights

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24th Nov.' 17 - Headlines

Big-data company Qubole brings Apache Spark to AWS Lambda
Now visualize Bitcoin Blockchain in 3D and Virtual Reality
China’s Baidu to begin production of autonomous self-driving bus in 2018

23rd Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

SAP enhances S/4HANA Cloud with new customer-centric features for improved user experience
Valorem Foundation announces new cryptocurrency platform

22nd Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

Amazon Rekognition can now detect texts and real-time faces with 10% more accuracy
Japan unveils first quantum computer that is 100x faster than supercomputers

21st Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

Bitcoin price hits record high, crosses $8000
Amazon EMR 5.10.0 released: support for Apache MXNet, GPU instance types P3 and P2, and Presto integration with the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Google Cloud Platform cuts the price of GPUs by up to 36 percent

20th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

Olympus – A new tool that instantly creates a REST API for any AI model
SAP Vora introduced into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Visa kicks off pilot phase of “Visa B2B Connect” blockchain-based platform, commercial launch in mid-2018

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