Sufi-sticated sounds.

Very well worth a few minutes of anyone’s ears.

After listening to his new record, Sun Songs, it seems to me that Art Alexakis still has the same unmatched ability to write

Luckily for Eurovision fans, all 41 songs will be available on EUROVISION 2020 – The Album - which is released on May 15th On UMC Records.

In this introductory series on Bluemix and Bluemix Continuous Delivery, you'll discover how using these products can prevent you from wasting time. You learn how to quickly and easily deploy a simple application, deploy an app that makes use of a Bluemix service, and write code that uses a new Bluemix service. You'll even try out the Web IDE (no setup required) and learn how to use agile planning tools. As a bonus to all of the knowledge you'll get by working through the examples in this series, you also get an application that checks the prices of items in online stores for you, so you don’t have to surf the web to see if your favorite items are on sale!

In this tutorial series, learn how to analyze how social media affects the NBA using Python, pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, and a touch of R. Part 2 explores individual athletes in the NBA: endorsement data, true on-the-court performance, and social power with Twitter and Wikipedia.

Since my last tutorial on the subject appeared, some improvements have been made in terms of simplifying the setup process of the federation feature in Big SQL and adding support for new data sources or newer versions. This tutorial will take you through the incremental changes to the simplified configuration in the different versions of Big SQL V4 up to V4.2.4. It will also touch briefly on the more advanced topic of performance.

This article describes the details behind the new software-defined converged infrastructure for deploying SAS Foundation Mixed Analytics workloads using IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS), IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM POWER8, and Mellanox networking technology. This article documents detailed test configurations, test scenarios, performance results, and tuning options for the converged infrastructure. This article provides a methodology to tune each component in the infrastructure horizontally, as well as tuning the solution vertically, which allowed the optimal performance to be achieved.

Learn how to get data from your Informix database and dump it in Spark so you can leverage it against other data sources and compile advanced analytics all that in Java. The targeted audience is Informix and non-Informix users seeking to bring RDBMS data into Spark.

The third part of this tutorial series goes deeper into joins and more complex queries. Learn how to get data from your Informix database and dump it in Spark so you can leverage it against other data sources and compile advanced analytics all that in Java. The targeted audience is Informix and non-Informix users seeking to bring RDBMS data into Spark.

This article explains how you can perform or enable parallel Linux OS installation on IBM PowerVM logical partitions.

This article describes how IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8.x handles poison JMS messages, looks at the behaviour of both the default messaging provider and the IBM WebSphere MQ messaging provider, and provides information on how the default behaviour can be changed.

In this introductory series on Bluemix and Bluemix Continuous Delivery, you'll discover how using these products can prevent you from wasting time. Using the simple app created in Part 1, learn how to deploy an app that makes use of a Bluemix service in Part 2. Continue to Part 3, where you learn how to write code that uses the new Bluemix service. In Part 4, learn how to use the Delivery Pipeline service to deploy your app to Bluemix automatically whenever you or someone else on your team pushes code to your project's repository.

In Part 4 of this tutorial series, you'll learn how to link external and public data to your existing data to gain insights for your sales team. In this scenario for retail sales, you'll learn how to forecast the hot sales areas for new wins.

This article demonstrates how performance with IBM AIX flash can drastically improve read requests from a storage subsystem by running performance benchmark tests. The test team experimented using different performance benchmarks and measured the performance data to demonstrate the variation with and without AIX flash cache.

Your article abstract goes here. Put the main points and key phrases at the beginning of the abstract, because it will be truncated in search results. Make your abstract enticing yet succinct. Aim for three to five sentences that express why the reader would care about the content (motive) and what he or she can gain from reading the content (benefits).

Your article abstract goes here. Put the main points and key phrases at the beginning of the abstract, because it will be truncated in search results. Make your abstract enticing yet succinct. Aim for three to five sentences that express why the reader would care about the content (motive) and what he or she can gain from reading the content (benefits).

Your article abstract goes here. Put the main points and key phrases at the beginning of the abstract, because it will be truncated in search results. Make your abstract enticing yet succinct. Aim for three to five sentences that express why the reader would care about the content (motive) and what he or she can gain from reading the content (benefits).

The second part of this four-part series shows you how to translate the abstract information model for data in your web pages into one of the three formats supported by Schema.org: RDFa, Microdata, and JSON-LD

It is sometimes useful to have more granular access controls on a database than the controls that are provided by Cloudant. In this tutorial, you learn how to create a Cloudant proxy that is under your control. Using such a proxy, you can implement the appropriate authorization model to the system.

Part 5 of this tutorial series teaches you how to add machine learning to your data to help you extrapolate future orders.

This article describes the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) Flash support on IBM AIX. CAPI technology has been used on AIX to accelerate I/O operations to IBM Flash storage. AIX CAPI Flash driver stack has been optimized into a monolithic driver model which further reduced the I/O code path length. CAPI Flash technology provides a superior performance advantage in terms of IOPS per processor when compared to the traditional Fibre Channel I/O. We also describe at a high level how a user can use CAPI-based flash devices on AIX.

If you’ve ever wanted to change the way IBM Connections looks or behaves, the new IBM Connections Customizer gives you the control you’ve been looking for. In this article, you’ll learn how Customizer lets you change the Connections user interface, and how you can get started using Customizer right away.

Individuals and organizations store all kinds of data. What do we do with it all? Can we call it up as we need it? Can all that data be analyzed quickly and efficiently? Or, does it tie up storage resources and languish for years because the cost of going through it and discarding what's obsolete is too high? Discover the utility and wisdom of storing dark data.

This tutorial demonstrates how to implement a custom crawler plug-in with IBM Watson Explorer to analyze a hierarchical data structure within the context of content analytics. The strategy outlined here permits the retaining of the hierarchical structure or grains of the model being analyzed.

AMP shareholders, denied dividends for 2019, have served a first `strike' on the hefty pay packets of the beleaguered financial giant's executives.

A polar vortex brought rare winter weather conditions to the Northeast of the US on May 9, with freezing temperatures and snow reported across parts of New England, including Vermont. Up to 9 inches of snow was recorded in parts of Vermont with freeze or frost advisories reported in 20 states across the Midwest and Northeast. Video filmed by Mitch @VermonsterWx shows several inches of “light and fluffy” snow accumulation near Readsboro, Vermont. Credit: Mitch @VermonsterWx via Storyful

Restaurants and cafes are closed to sit-down customers so food services across the Sydney are getting creative, offering you an easier way to do-it-yourself from the comfort of your own home.

From tie dye trackies to oversized sweaters, Australian shoppers are buying into the activewear trend in a big way during isolation.

Anti-vax WAG Taylor Winterstein has said that there is a “strong core of families” in the NRL who are also anti-vaxxers that Australians would be “seriously surprised” about.

Charlie Demers and Glen Foster refuse to look fuel-ish when they discuss the carbon tax. Then, Evany Rosen and Todd Graham try to stay civil in their debate on city slogans.

Patrick Ledwell and Amanda Brooke Perrin send a clear message to their Ottawa audience when they discuss if it’s better to call or text. Then, Ron Sparks and beloved children’s entertainer Fred Penner belt it out over whether or not everyone should sing.

What the Oka crisis reveals about this week's pipeline standoff, COVID-19 sparks fears of a hockey stick shortage, Bernie Sanders impersonator James Adomian, charting U.S. Attorney General William Barr's next move, why pop music works, revisiting the death of Malcolm X and more.

A doctor at Pinecrest Nursing Home describes the devastation of COVID-19, Michael Ignatieff on Hungary's slide into autocracy, weighing Alberta's decision to invest in Keystone XL, pro wrestling goes audience-free, why Tiger King went viral and more.

Should we preserver the noise of a fax machine? Does your DNA affect your music tastes? And what tunes make the tastiest Emmental?

How examining opposing views may entrench your own, IBM's AI debater, showing emotion on IG, and the importance of reclaiming boredom.

Failure is having a moment in the tech industry. What can that teach us about our limitations and how we measure success?

One of the original uses of networking tech were attempts at racial profiling and predictive policing, author Charlton McIlwain says.

In her book, "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You," Janelle Shane poses the pitfalls of AI dependence

Put some cozy socks on, set your phone notifications on silent, and kick back, as we revisit conversations with people who've dedicated their research to helping us rest, recharge and return to nature.

Online tools for divorce and co-parenting aim to keep the process amicable and inexpensive. These digital resources are part of a broader move to open up divorce to less adversarial conflict resolution methods like mediation, coaching and collaborative law.

Tech journalist Takara Small says people are building private social networks, through group messages with friends and family and interest-based communities, to create a safe space online.

A technology expert says he is impressed at how well Canada’s internet is holding up given the massive data-load its infrastructure is under amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In a new doc, the Canadian actress takes a searing look at injustices in her home province.

The record breaking mega hit All About That Bass transformed Meghan Trainor into a chart-topping pop star before she turned 21 — but with sudden fame also came anxiety and self-doubt. Trainor put in the work to get back in a good place, the results of which can be heard on her new album, Treat Myself.

Plane stranded on Shabbat in Halifax and community comes to the rescue, Alberta man has talent calming babies in distress/fosters 88 babies over time, Winnipeg theatre company workshop for aspiring drag queens and St. John police officer deals with a rogue seal

Winnipeg neighbourhood with no grocery stores has shuttle to take residents to shop, Ste-Hyacinthe family finds grasshopper in salad mix and Nova Scotia photographers capture Atlantic salmon spawning.

Thunder Bay psychologist and the healing power of forest therapy walks, Torbay Nfld boy gets bravery award for saving a classmate's life, London Ontario cabbie of twenty years talks about what he enjoys and what irks him and remembering 97 year old Sara Sexton of Newfoundland who died last month.