People who live in multilingual homes (the author included) understand the frustration with apps and software that only support one language or the other. Typing a search query isn’t a major bother in different languages and scripts, but using voice queries involves having to change the language settings. That is, until now. Google LLC announced today ...

Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence startup Diffbot Inc. today launched what it claims is the world’s largest structured, enterprise-ready database of human knowledge ever created. According to the company, the Diffbot Knowledge Graph is 500 times larger than Google LLC’s own Knowledge Graph and growing autonomously every day. It’s launching with more than 1 trillion facts and ...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency startup Terra is the latest to attempt to establish a tradable “stablecoin,” raising $32 million today from a number of leading exchanges in an attempt to bring its white paper to reality. Leading the investment were Binance Labs, OKEx, Huobi Capital and Dunamu, representing a spectrum of very large Asian cryptocurrency firms and, as ...

Air Canada Inc. is advising customers of their mobile app to reset their passwords after the company said it detected a potential data breach. The airline said in a notice to customers Tuesday that it detected “unusual login behavior” between Aug. 22 and 24. “We immediately took action to block these attempts and implemented additional protocols ...

Police in China are investigating the theft of data from a major hotel group after 130 million customer records were discovered for sale on the shady part of the web called the darknet. The data pertains to the Chinese hotel group Huazhu Hotels Group Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed company with 3,903 hotels run under a range ...

Seeking to raise at least $100 million and probably more, SurveyMonkey Inc. today formally filed to go public following the submission a S1 draft registration statement in June. Founded in 2009, the company offers a cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool that has become synonymous with online surveys in the same way as Google with search. ...

Investment firm Morgan Creek Digital today teamed up with Bitwise Asset Management Fund Inc. to create a new cryptocurrency fund designed for institutional investors. Called The Digital Asset Index Fund, the fund holds investments in the top ten cryptocurrencies based on their market share. At launch, bitcoin holds nearly 70 percent of the index’s shares, followed by ...

A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system that could enable a hacker to gain elevated privileges in a network has been revealed on Twitter, with no solution in sight. Revealed Monday by a Twitter user going by the name SandBoxEscaper and since certified as legitimate by CERT/CC vulnerability analyst Will Dormann, the vulnerability is ...

Microsoft Corp. is spreading some more artificial intelligence love to its products, announcing it will add automated video and audio transcription capabilities to OneDrive for Business. The AI behind the service is currently available in Microsoft Stream, Microsoft’s corporate video-sharing service first featured at the Build Developer conference in May. “While viewing a video or listening ...

Waymo LLC has long been regarded as the leader in autonomous vehicle development and technology, but all might not be as well as it seems at the company, according to a report published Tuesday. The Information quoted a number of unnamed Waymo insiders who claim the vehicles being used in the Arizona ride-hailing test have numerous problems. ...