MapR has unveiled a converged cluster plan to do away with emerging silos in big data. The NoSQL startup today announced Streams as the newest part of what the firm has branded the MapR Converged Data Platform. MapR joins fellow Hadoop spinners Hortonworks and Cloudera in the handy platform branding stakes, with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH).
Streams, which will become generally available in early 2016, is an event-streaming architecture pitched at those gathering and analyzing data in real-time.
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European Union antitrust regulators charged Qualcomm on Tuesday with abusing its market power to thwart rivals, putting the world’s number one mobile chipset maker at risk of a hefty fine. The accusations by the European Commission are the latest antitrust problems for the company as regulators in the United States, China, Japan and South Korea look into its licensing model and its dominant patents in mobile networks and devices.
A major factor that deters girls from pursuing computer science is the perception that coders are mostly white and male, 
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Chapeau 23 “Armstrong,” a Linux distribution based on the Fedora 23 Workstation has been released and is now available for download.
IBM announced Tuesday plans to open up its QRadar analytics platform to in an effort to spur the development of security applications that can be used in the battle against cyber attackers. Big Blue hopes to use the future influx of security apps to populate the IBM Security App Exchange, which the company also just announced.