Hailun Yang

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Alexa, Good Job in Tech, Not Ready to Dominate

by on August 3, 2018 12:17 am
  Early around March 2018, there was an interesting, perhaps also creepy news about Amazon’s Alexa: Alexa laughs at users randomly. [1] Although some people found this buggy behavior amusing, most people were freaking out hearing random laughter out of nowhere. Amazon later explained that Alex “mistakenly hear the phrase ‘Alexa, laugh,’” when other words… Read more Alexa, Good Job in Tech, Not Ready to Dominate

From Cyber to BlockChain, How Can Security Carry On

by on July 27, 2018 11:11 am
Ever since web 1.0, 30 years of human efforts have been made to guard the security of WWW. Together with the technology breakthroughs like online banking, cloud computing and IoT, cyber attack also diverges into multiple directions. As Steve Herrod, Managing Director of General Catalyst and Ex-CTO of VMWare, mentioned last week, those attacks widely… Read more From Cyber to BlockChain, How Can Security Carry On

Two Cents on AI in Healthcare

by on July 19, 2018 11:09 pm
Thanks to the emerging of AI, huge progresses have been made in the past decades in healthcare industry. Not only we can see people surging into this area for the scientific advances, but also infinite business opportunities. Let’s take a look at the numbers: [1] – According to venture capital firm Rock Health, 121 health AI… Read more Two Cents on AI in Healthcare

The Leverage of Bare Metal for Oracle Cloud

by on July 11, 2018 2:47 pm
On year 2016, Oracle announced its Bare Metal Cloud as the company’s next-generation offering. Later Bare Metal Cloud got renamed into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to be differentiated from Oracle’s existing 1st generation of cloud service offering, which is called Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI-C). Since then, OCI is under heavy development by talents acquired from other top cloud… Read more The Leverage of Bare Metal for Oracle Cloud

AI to Empower Google

by on July 5, 2018 6:12 pm
In this year’s Google I/O, annual developer conference held by Google, new features and announcements were released, and they were just as good as those from previous years, if not better. Some of the key features include Android P, updated Google Home and Google Duplex. My favorite feature, and I’m sure it’s also many people’s… Read more AI to Empower Google