Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...
In the beginning, data was closed. Although we have been ‘transporting’ data between different locations, systems and resources since the time of the first databases and personal computers in the ...
Web3 still relies on centralized infrastructure to run applications and AI models, creating major challenges for users and developers. Chris Jenkins, Operations Lead at Pocket Network, shared insights ...
The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...
MinIO, the data foundation for enterprise analytics and AI, is debuting AIStor Table Sharing, a capability built into MinIO AIStor that allows enterprises to securely share their on-premises data ...
Across the region, the potential of open data still hasn’t been fully recognised as a driver for good governance. Analysis of data.gov portals show that though data is available in machine-readable ...