Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

UK antitrust watchdog investigates Google’s acquisition of Looker

The U.K.’s competition watchdog today said it’s probing Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. The Competition and Markets Authority said it was considering whether the deal could hurt competition in the U.K. or other markets and invited comments on the acquisition until Dec. 20. Google announced its intention to ...

AppSheet adds predictive machine learning to its no-code app development tools

No code application software company AppSheet is expanding its skillset today by adding predictive machine learning capabilities and optical character recognition to its platform to help users make more intelligent business apps. AppSheet is one of several “no-code” platform providers that enable enterprise workers who lack coding skills to build all kinds of useful software ...

Formula One runs aerodynamic simulations on AWS to improve race car design

Always keen to showcase the capabilities of its public cloud computing platform at its annual re:Invent conference this week in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services Inc. today revealed a new project by existing customer Formula One Group as well as two brand-new customers. The motorsports company used AWS to help do auto race simulations in ...

Nvidia uses federated learning to enable AI in hospitals

Nvidia Corp. wants to make artificial intelligence a staple of the healthcare industry with a new distributed learning technique announced today that can train machine learning models while protecting patient privacy. AI holds great promise, but for industries such as healthcare where data privacy is of paramount importance, tapping into that potential is a big ...

EU launches new antitrust probe into Google data collection practices

European Union antitrust regulators are targeting Google LLC again, this time scrutinizing its data collection practices in Europe, Reuters reported today. The new investigation comes just a few months after the EU imposed a record fine on the company for its  alleged “abusive” online advertising practices. A spokesperson for the European Commission told Reuters it’s ...

Russia’s Sberbank invests in driverless car tech firm Cognitive

Russian financial services giant PJSC Sberbank has expanded its technology portfolio to include driverless cars after making a substantial investment in local artificial intelligence transport firm Cognitive Technologies. Sberbank has signed a legally binding agreement with Cognitive Technologies that will lead to the creation of a new company, to be called Cognitive Pilot, it told ...

AI in the cloud: AWS makes machine learning more accessible for developers

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference is still nearly a week away, but you wouldn’t know it from the sheer number of new products and updates its announced in recent days — especially in artificial intelligence, likely to be a key focus of the conference. Following last week’s storage announcements and its “internet of things” ...

As Xerox steps up acquisition pursuit, HP delivers strong earnings

Personal computer and printer maker HP Inc. delivered strong fiscal fourth-quarter results that topped expectations on profit and revenue, sending its shares up slightly in after-hours trading. The results come at a tumultuous time for the company, which is struggling to fend off a hostile takeover attempt from the much smaller Xerox Corp. That unsolicited ...

Despite VMware boost, Dell misses revenue targets as US-China trade tensions bite

Dell Technologies Inc. missed revenue targets today as its server business struggled with higher costs and lower demand in a market left reeling by ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China. The infrastructure technology giant reported a third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.75 per share on revenue of $22.8 ...

AWS says businesses should move to its cloud to lower their carbon footprint

Most businesses are all too aware of the benefits to be had from moving their enterprise technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. AWS itself typically cites increased agility and innovation, access to its global infrastructure, and considerable cost savings as the main reasons to consider such a move, and it’s one ...