Inside the Subsea Cable Firm Secretly Helping America Take on China
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at the time that the accusations were part of a U.S. disinformation campaign, describing America as the “empire of hacking.”In December of last year, the Pentagon awarded $9 billion worth of Cloud computing contracts to Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle, entrusting these companies to keep America’s most closely held secrets under digital lock and key.“Silicon Valley is waking up to the reality that it has to pick a side,” said Jacob Helberg, former head of Google’s news policy and a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security

Hacking 4 Environment: Oceans - Creating Entrepreneurs from Scientists and Students
effective: talk with them to understand how they experience the problem students are working to solve, who else might be affected by it, what the stakeholders have done to address the problem on their own, and whether the students’ suggested solution would fix the issue. UCSD’s Team Arctic Oracle, for example, spoke to 100 stakeholders on the way to devising a solution that uses SAR data and other sensors to measure ice thickness and other criteria to optimize shipping routes through the Arctic Sea.About the Author: Steve Weinstein is the senior vice president of strategy for the innovation

Teledyne CARIS Updates Hydrographic Production Database
ensuring conformity with the IHO S-4 Ed 4.6.0 standard. The enhanced symbol library, presentation and marginalia instructions bring the first cut of a chart closer to a print-ready state. Furthermore cartographic features can now be stored directly in the Source database with HPD 3.2. HPD users with Oracle 12c can now use a single sign-on using their Windows credentials for all HPD applications

CARIS Launches Bathy DataBASE 4.2
Module (EAM). The ability to drape higher resolution imagery (e.g. backscatter) over elevation models in both 2D and 3D has been introduced. There has been a substantial coordinate reference system modification, which incorporates the implementation of EPSG Geodetic Parameter dataset. Support for Oracle 12c has been enabled as well as an overall emphasis on server specific performance including faster server combine processes. Powered by the CSAR engine and backed by proven relational database technology, the new version 4.2 of CARIS Bathy DataBASE delivers a scalable solution for the management

Envitia, NIW Undertake Positional Improvement Project
these datasets to the corresponding OSNI maps, ensuring that NIW can continue working as usual. Envitia’s managed service includes data analysis and planning, input and advice on data rules, rehearsals, automated transformations; quality assurance and reinstatement to a replica instance of Oracle Spatial 11g R2 production database. “The positional improvement project is hugely significant for NI Water. Spatial datasets are among some of the most accessed and analyzed data within the company and beyond. NI Water has invested heavily in spatial data and GIS over the last six years