Imagine a robot stacking boxes in a warehouse when it suddenly sees that one box is in the wrong stack. It goes back and puts the container in the right place. How did the machine know it had made a mistake? The robot’s human boss didn’t punch any codes into a computer to have the…
Corporations concerned about the release of thousands of CIA documents detailing hacks against Apple iOS and Mac OSX, Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows, Linux and Solaris need to conduct a fresh round of risk assessment that takes the new revelations into account. While the trove of leaked data – known as Vault 7 – doesn’t include…
Tesla Motors has hired Gary Clark, formerly IT CTO and engineering CIO of Juniper Networks, as its new CIO. Clark replaces Jay Vijayan, who left the company in January 2016 to launch a startup. Clark, who oversaw Juniper’s broad shift to cloud infrastructure and SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications, revealed the appointment on his LinkedIn profile but…
Microsoft’s entry into the modern workplace chat app market will be generally available in a week. The company announced Tuesday it will be marking the occasion with a webcast to discuss what’s new since the service was announced last year. The Teams product is Microsoft’s answer to group chat apps like Slack and HipChat. The…
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz today dragged Apple and its iPhone into the debate about healthcare coverage during an appearance on CNN. Chaffetz, who heads the House Oversight Committee, told “New Day” host Alisyn Camerota that Americans might have to decide between buying a new iPhone and paying for health insurance. [ To comment on…
Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has agreed to pay US$892 million to the U.S. government for illegally selling networking technology to Iran. ZTE entered a guilty plea over the charges, which include violating export controls meant to keep sensitive U.S. technology away from the Iranian government, the U.S Department of Justice said on Tuesday. “They…
Say you just got laid off from your job. Bills are piling up and the pressure to get a new job quickly is building. Your desperation has you taking chances you wouldn’t normally take, such as clicking on a link to a job offer — even if something about it doesn’t quite look right. Research…
Yahoo might be on the verge of being sold to Verizon for a king’s ransom, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t stopped making online tools of questionable usefulness. Its latest effort, Captain, is a chatbot that “streamlines family logistics,” or in simple terms: it keeps you and your family in sync. You don’t need to…
Salesforce is getting into the computer vision business with a new tool designed to let users easily train a custom image recognition system. Einstein Vision, as it’s known, allows users to upload sets of images and classify them in a series of categories. After that, the system will create a recognizer based on machine learning…
Google Assistant is having a great month. Just last week Google started rolling out its voice-activated aide to all Android phones running Marshmallow and Nougat, and now it’s showing off a new trick that will make it much more useful: integration with our messages. For whatever reason, Google Assistant struggled when it came to reading…