What is VR locomotion (virtual reality locomotion)?
VR locomotion refers to the techniques and technologies that allow users to move within a virtual reality (VR) environment. Unlike real-world movement, where locomotion is intuitive and physical, moving through a digital space requires translation of user inputs — either physical or simulated — into virtual movement. As immersive VR continues to evolve, locomotion remains […]
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Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight
Download the June 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World. Enterprise Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud ComputingDownload source
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Snowflake takes aim at legacy data workloads with SnowConvert AI migration tools
Snowflake is hoping to win business with a new tool for migrating old workloads, SnowConvert AI, that it claims can help enterprises move their data, data warehouses, business intelligence (BI) reports, and code to its platform without increasing complexity. Powered by Snowflake’s Cortex AI Agents, the suite can halve the time taken to migrate workloads, […]
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AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
My Stack Overflow story Years ago, I asked a question on Stack Overflow that was really bothering me. I was trying to create a perfect “quarter” circle sector in draw.io. I provided my code and asked what I was doing wrong. The question was enough of an outlier that it didn’t get any upvotes, but […]
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What is the OSI model? The 7 layers of OSI explained
The OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection model) is a multilayered reference model that shows how computer systems and applications communicate over a network. This seven-layer model provides a visual design of how each communications layer is built on top of the other, starting with the physical cabling, all the way to the application that’s trying […]
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AWS’ Serverless MCP Server to aid agentic development of managed applications
How does the new serverless MCP Server work? Developers have a choice of using any coding assistant via its MCP Client to use the new AWS Serverless MCP Server, and they can start by downloading the new Server from GitHub or Python Package Index (PyPi). Once the Server is downloaded and installed, developers have to insert a piece […]
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A wake-up call for real cloud ROI
Enterprise adoption of public cloud platforms has been skyrocketing. More than half of all enterprise workloads are now running in public clouds, with spending projected to rise by nearly a third this year alone. Many organizations are allocating more than $12 million annually to public cloud services. Despite this massive investment, a significant portion—about 27%—of […]
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Docling: An open-source toolkit for advanced document processing
Layout Analysis Model: A model based on RT-DETR and trained on DocLayNet (a human-annotated data set for document layout analysis) that classifies page elements like paragraphs, section titles, lists, and tables. TableFormer: A vision-transformer model for table structure recovery that can handle complex tables with partial or no borderlines, empty cells, cell spans, and hierarchical […]
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What is GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)?
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is a digital mobile communication standard applied widely in Europe and other parts of the world. Globally compatible, GSM is more popular than another 2G mobile standard: code-division multiple access (CDMA), which is only available in a few countries. While CDMA is tied to a specific mobile phone and […]
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InfluxDB’s new model for time series workloads
At the heart of this shift is our embedded Python Processing Engine. It runs directly inside the database, allowing developers to write custom Python that executes next to the data. The benefit? No extra infrastructure or external VMs. No network latency. No waiting. What was once a storage layer becomes an active, real-time engine for […]
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