Uber Technologies Inc. has expanded its push into artificial intelligence through the acquisition of New York City-based Geometric Intelligence Inc., a company that is making an ambitious attempt to do machine learning more efficiently from less data. Under the deal, Geometric Intelligence’s 15-person staff will relocate to Uber’s hometown of San Francisco and form Uber ...

Apple Inc.’s on again, off again self-driving car project would appear to be on again. The company has disclosed in a letter to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it’s keen to test its own self-driving vehicles. The letter, dated Nov. 22, was sent by Apple to the NHTSA as part of a lobbying ...

There is unlikely to be an Apple-branded drone anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the tech giant isn’t fond of using them: Multiple reports claim that Apple Inc. is planning to use drones to enhance its Maps app. According to Bloomberg quoting sources familiar with the matter, Apple is assembling a team of robotics and ...

A botnet network at one stage responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks globally has been brought down following a four-year investigation by global law enforcement agencies. The Avalanche network is estimated to involve hundreds of thousands of infected computers worldwide. As part of the takedown, officials seized command and control servers and took control of ...

Amazon Web Services has entered the distributed denial of service mitigation business with a new service launched at the re:Invite conference in Las Vegas Thursday. Called AWS Shield, the new managed service protects web applications against DDoS attacks in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 and protects users from DDoS ...

A new form of Android malware that roots devices and steals email accounts and authentication tokens has been found and is believed to have hijacked more than a million Google accounts. Discovered by security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and named “Gooligan,” the malware targets older Android devices running on variants of Android called ...

Advertising technology startup AppNexus Inc. has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering according to reports Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal claims that the company is seeking the go public on a valuation between $1.5 billion and $2 billion though notes that pricing talk “is still fluid.” Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and J.P. Morgan ...

Amazon.com Inc. and tech startup accelerator TechStars have joined forces to launch the Alexa Accelerator, a new accelerator to support early-stage startups building services for Amazon’s artificial intelligence platform. Run in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa fund, the Alexa Accelerator will focus on startups building voice-powered tech, interfaces and applications in Alexa domains including connected home, ...

Automattic Inc.’s WordPress content management system currently holds a 59 percent market share in content management systems, powering 27 percent of all sites on the Internet, thanks to its ease of use. By contrast, anyone wanting to host WordPress on Amazon Web Services required some technical knowledge to install an instance on EC2. That is, until ...

Unified storage provider Nexsan Inc. is to become a private company once more through a deal with Spear Point Capital Management that will see it spun out from parent company Imation Corp. Under the deal announced Tuesday, Imation Chief Executive Officer Bob Fernander and Chief Technology Officer Geoff Barrall will continue to run the Nexsan business ...