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• OMG, Facebook’s new patent to detect Internet slang

  FB (Facebook) has totes embraced new lingo by being granted a patent to develop software that can detect Internet slang, commonly used on social media sites by youngins.

• NT police arrest hundreds with new facial recognition tech

  The Northern Territory Police Force is utilising facial biometrics technology to identify and detain wanted criminals.
  

• Dynamic model predicts a patient’s mortality from electronic medical records

  Electronic medical records are not only useful as a central repository for storing and updating information but also provide rich sources of data that can be analysed and mined to improve patient care.

• DataTorrent tackles complexity of Hadoop data ingestion

  While the buzz around big data analysis is at a peak, there is less discussion about how to get the necessary data into the systems in the first place, which can involve the cumbersome task of setting up and maintaining a number of data processing pipelines.

• Workday bets on machine learning with new venture fund

  There's no shortage of software vendors paying lip service to data science in this analytics-infused era, but Workday is putting its money where its mouth is.

• Nvidia attempts to ease the path to deep learning

  Nvidia hopes to bring artificial intelligence to a wider range of applications with an update to its Digits software for designing neural networks.

• Scott McNealy sees gold in the hills of social data

  It's coming up on four years since ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy launched Wayin, but the startup today bears little resemblance to its original self.

• Blazent brings big data to IT operations management

  IT management software and services provider Blazent is putting the much-ballyhooed big data analysis to work on behalf of its enterprise customers.

• Salesforce's new analytics apps will be tailored for specific roles

  Furthering its push to deliver user-friendly analytics across the enterprise, Salesforce on Thursday unveiled a new series of apps that are each tailored for a specific business context and role.

• SAS automates data modeling for fast analysis

  SAS wants to supercharge your business analysis, through new software that automatically builds multiple models of data and picks those that best predict future events.

• Alabama researcher devises a way to harness unused IoT power

  In the future, smart home appliances could work in harmony to make money, or to provide more computing capacity, for their owners.

• SAP steps up its IoT push with new Hana, analytics releases

  Aiming to better equip enterprises for big data and the Internet of Things, SAP on Tuesday rolled out a host of new features in its Hana platform and predictive-analytics portfolio.

• IBM prepares Spark for machine learning

  IBM is putting considerable resources behind Apache Software Foundation's Spark to ready the platform for machine learning duties such as pattern recognition and object classification.

• IBM commits to Apache Spark compute engine

  Calling Apache Spark "the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data," IBM today announced that it will embed the compute engine into its analytics and commerce platforms and offer Spark as a service on IBM Bluemix.

• Spark update brings R support and machine learning chops

  One of the most popular big data processing platforms, Spark, now supports one of the premier statistical programming languages, R, which could pave the way for easier big data statistical analysis.