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Apple launches new MacBook Pros with more processing power, better displays
Apple Inc. today pulled back the curtains on new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros that offer vastly more horsepower than their predecessors, along with an array of other enhancements. It’s the 13-inch model, the more affordable of the two, that has received the biggest boost. Apple claims that the machine can provide as much as ...
Alation adds ‘governance guardrails’ to its data catalog
Alation Inc., an analytics startup founded in 2012 by Google LLC and Apple Inc. veterans, wants to reduce the risk of unreliable information getting into enterprise analytics projects. Alation’s plan for achieving this involves a new set of features called TrustCheck that it rolled out today to its flagship data catalog. The platform, which boasts big-name ...
Facebook releases new research dataset to help AI communicate better
Facebook Inc. today released an artificial intelligence dataset called Talk the Walk that aims to help computers learn how to interact with humans more naturally by exploring New York City. Currently, the communications capabilities of AI software are fairly limited. That’s because artificial neural networks learn language by analyzing sample text for statistical patterns, which isn’t a ...
Betting on aerospace, Alphabet turns Loon and Wing into standalone businesses
Alphabet Inc. is graduating two of the more daring projects that have been incubating at its X research group into independent businesses, signaling an intent to pursue the initiatives more seriously. Loon, the first new division, is building high-altitude internet balloons (pictured) that are essentially inflatable cellular towers designed to float in the stratosphere. The other project is ...
SecureAuth brings adaptive authentication to Windows and Mac
Access management provider SecureAuth Corp., which does business as SecureAuth + Core Security, today debuted two new products aimed at filling a gap in its main target market. Login for Windows and Login for Mac are built to provide what’s known as adaptive authentication. It’s an emerging method of blocking malicious login attempts that has ...
Slack gets a faster and more personalized search experience
Slack Technologies Inc. today augmented its team chat service with new search features to help workers find important files and information faster. The approximately 8 million daily users who rely on Slack do a big portion of their communications in the service. Messages consequently tend to pile up, particularly in rooms with a lot of channels. That ...
AT&T to acquire threat detection and intelligence provider AlienVault
Two weeks after inking a $1.6 billion deal for digital ad exchange operator AppNexus Inc., AT&T Inc. today announced yet another technology acquisition. The carrier has entered an agreement to buy AlienVault Inc., a San Mateo, California-based threat detection provider. AT&T didn’t disclose the price tag, but the financial details already out there about AlienVault ...
Snap is quietly building an object recognition feature called Camera Search
An analysis of Snap Inc.’s Android app has revealed code for an unreleased object recognition feature that could give the company a potentially significant new revenue source. The capability was detailed today in a TechCrunch report that cited app researcher Ishan Agarwal. Agarwal has made a name for himself by uncovering features on Instagram’s development roadmap ...
Google debuts Jib, a tool to make software containers and Java work better together
Google LLC today released Jib, a new open-source tool that aims to make software containers and the Java programming language work more seamlessly together. The two technologies are both mainstays of application development in the enterprise. Java has been used to write business software for decades and remains ubiquitous to this day. Software containers are a ...
Blockchain startup Oasis Labs raises $45M for ‘privacy-first’ cloud
Oasis Labs Inc., a blockchain startup founded by computer scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, today stepped into the spotlight for the first time by announcing that it has raised $45 million in funding. The round saw the participation of more than 70 investors. The two biggest names on the list are Accel ...