This week: Pinhead-size copies of human organs help save lives and treat illnesses. Plus, why is Oracle Database like a smartphone? Houston’s Lone Star College brings hurricane preparations to weathering a pandemic. Also: Simplify legacy Java for easy maintenance.
3D-printed “organoids”—pinhead-size copies of human organs—help research possible treatments for COVID-19, cancer, heart disease, and other conditions, aided by advances in data analysis and the cloud.
Much like a smartphone, Oracle Database provides many valuable tools in one elegant package, says Oracle’s Andrew Mendelsohn. The latest database version adds new blockchain tables, native JSON data types, better graph models, and more.
A history of hurricane preparedness helped Houston’s huge Lone Star College system prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic. The 93,000-student junior college system had experience moving operations online, with help from the cloud.
Here’s the behind-the-scenes story on how Oracle security researchers spotted the “StreamScam” fraudsters, who use bots to rip off ad buyers on streaming video played over connected TVs.
