With the help from the city of Abu Dhabi, IBM will offer its Watson-based data analysis services to the Middle East and North Africa. Under the partnership, the Abu Dhabi-based investment and development company Mubadala will introduce Watson to its network of regional companies, entrepreneurs, start ups and application developers, …
It takes a plow the size of a small house, a robot the size of a truck and a purpose-built ship to install Google’s latest oceanic infrastructure project—a super-fast submarine Internet cable linking the U.S. and Japan. The US$300 million FASTER cable system, backed by Google and East Asian telecom …
After halting the service due to an influx of spam, Google is ready to open Map Maker again, with changes that hand much of the control back to users. Map Maker lets people update the information in Google Maps to make it more accurate. The service will reopen in phases …
When voters go to the polls in next year’s presidential election, could a candidate’s stance on the sharing economy factor into their decision? In a speech Monday focused on economic policy, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out on what she saw as the double-edged sword that characterizes startups like Uber, …
Smartwatch maker Pebble will start manufacturing its new Pebble Time Steel this week and begin shipping the device at the end of this month. People who backed the smartwatch’s crowdfunding campaign early on will have theirs shipped out the last week of July, the company said. People who contributed later …
Hard on the heels of the publication of the latest Top 500 ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, IBM and Nvidia on Monday announced they have teamed up to launch two new supercomputer centers of excellence to develop the next generation of contenders. Created as part of IBM’s supercomputing contract …
A U.S. government agency will start its third attempt to develop voluntary privacy standards for an emerging area of technology, this time with a series of meetings on drone privacy scheduled to begin Aug. 3. The U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration has already hosted similar discussions on mobile app …
Amazon is doing its best to jack up sales by inventing a new shopping holiday, but one thing it hasn’t invented is a new idea. The e-commerce giant is trying to get people pumped up about Prime Day this Wednesday, but its only the latest example of a company manufacturing …
Oracle took another step forward in its efforts to bolster its cloud offerings Monday with the launch of two new products designed to help companies conduct their entire order-fulfillment processes in the cloud. Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud are both extensions of the company’s Supply …
Microsoft is attempting to woo businesses with its HoloLens augmented reality headset, demonstrating how the device could be used to aid in 3D modelling. The company paired HoloLens with the Maya Autodesk 3D modelling software during a demonstration Monday at its Worldwide Partners Conference in Orlando, Florida. Like previous HoloLens …
Staff from the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a joint report analyzing the significant volatility in the U.S. Treasury market …
Microsoft has fused a number of its new data processing technologies into a single package designed to help organizations get more value from their growing piles of data. The new suite, called Cortana Analytics, is designed to “democratize big data,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, during the opening keynote of …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a settlement with a Brooklyn man who entered into a cooperation agreement to help the agency mount evidence in an insider trading scheme in which illegal tips were passed via napkins or post-it notes at Grand Central Terminal. The SEC last year charged …
Five lightweight Linux desktops There are many different desktop environments for Linux, but not all of them work with older or less powerful hardware. Fortunately, there are also plenty of lightweight desktop environments for Linux. The Register has a helpful roundup of the top five lightweight desktop distributions. Scott Gilbertson …
A sophisticated group of hackers known for targeting military, government and media organizations is currently using an exploit for a vulnerability in Java that hasn’t been patched by Oracle. The zero-day exploit was recently observed by researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro in attacks against the armed forces of an …
Chinese networking giant Huawei has bought the software-defined networking (SDN) division of Irish telecom software maker Amartus. Amartus’ senior team and product staff in Ireland will join Huawei, which sees the acquisition as a way to expand its investment in research and development in Ireland and Europe, it said in …
Recently breached surveillance software maker, Hacking Team, had access to three different exploits for previously unknown vulnerabilities in Flash Player. All of them are now out in the open, putting Internet users at risk. Milan-based Hacking Team develops and sells surveillance software to government agencies from around the world. On …
Nintendo president Iwata dead of cancer at 55 Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, who oversaw some of the gaming giant’s biggest successes but also painful failures in his 13-year tenure, died Saturday after battling bile duct cancer. During his long run at the Nintendo’s helm, the gaming industry transitioned from an …
Руководство компании Яндекс решило отделить в новое направление разработку Яндекс.Браузера и мобильные технологии. Пост главы нового отделения стал Дмитрий Полищук. Ранее Дмитрий руководил производством мобильных сервисов Яндекса. Для полноценной работы молодого отделения дополнительно примут на работу около ста новых сотрудников. Как пишут источники, бюджет выделенный на заработную плату составляет примерно 140 млн рублей в год (без …
Social problems exist. Sexism, social stigmatization, crime and other problems have always plagued humanity. Increasingly, however, organizations are calling on Google to solve or help solve these social problems, usually at the expense of the quality of the company’s own products. Here are a few examples. Sexism Carnegie Mellon University …
When it comes to redefining the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, no major retailer even approaches what Apple has done with the Apple Store. The Apple Store had real mobile payments long before anyone else, as well as in-aisle payments, long before anyone else. (To this day, Starbucks, which often proclaims itself …
This company uses a microwave setup for links in its wide-area network, and that has worked fine — at least in the past, says a pilot fish at the telco that manages the system. “We started having a strange problem during the day: The signal kept getting broken,” fish says. …
Microsoft’s argument that the U.S. faces a shortage of people with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills isn’t helped by the 7,800 layoffs it announced last week. In fact, said Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate’s Immigration Subcommittee, Microsoft’s latest cuts show “there is a surplus — …
A supercomputer developed by China’s National Defense University remains the fastest publically known computer in the world while the U.S. is close to an historic low in the latest edition of the closely followed Top 500 supercomputer ranking, which was published on Monday. The Tianhe-2 computer, based at the National …
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, who oversaw some of the gaming giant’s biggest successes but also painful failures, has died of a bile duct growth, the company said. Iwata passed away Saturday at age 55 after working 13 years as president, a period that saw the gaming industry transition from dedicated …
Система Helium, созданная в MIT, способна оптимизировать бинарный код устаревших приложений в десятки раз быстрее, чем это делают профессиональные программисты вручную. …