Software quality firm Semmle Ltd. has been toiling in relative anonymity for the past four years, but that hasn’t stopped it from racking up customers such as Capital One, Credit Suisse Group AG, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Nasdaq Inc. Today, it’s launching formally and announcing a fresh $21 million in funding from a group ...

Following a recent report that Amazon Web Services Inc. could launch new network switches to target the data center hardware market, the cloud giant is taking a new step in that direction. AWS today announced the availability of EC2 compute instances — virtual servers in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service — for its Snowball Edge appliance. ...

If you think the tech-fueled disruptions of the past few years have been dramatic, hold on to your seats. Things are just getting started. The next round of disruption, fueled by powerful technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, robotics and humanlike machine interactions, will make the past 10 years look mild in comparison, according to the ...

The cryptocurrency market’s wild ride seems to be sparking a wealth of articles arguing that digital currencies are headed to zero valuation, while others believe they aren’t really currencies at all, but rather commodities like gold. I couldn’t disagree – or agree – more.  The fact is, it’s complicated. Cryptocurrencies challenge conventional wisdom. I believe that ...

More than a decade has passed since we coined the term “big data,” and a decade in the tech world is almost infinity. Is big data now obsolete? The short answer is that although big data in itself may still have its place for some apps, the focus has shifted to integrating data-driven insights into ...

Big data analytics has emerged in recent years as the heart of the digital business, the basis for turning data into a business value that drives differentiating operations and customer experiences. But even as big data analytics, or BDA, has become a boardroom conversation, too often the discussion comes down to one difficult question: “Why ...

“We are drowning in the why, both popular and scholarly, but starving for the how.” — Christopher M. Kelty, Two Bits Kelty’s exclamation comes after he exhausts the many impacts of the Internet — from email to patents on genes, from transference of traditional knowledge to net neutrality — and concludes that these achievements could only be ...

President Donald Trump’s new drone technology plans and policies won’t be enough to restore U.S. leadership in the sector, according to a former intelligence official who helped Ronald Reagan amp up critical American missile defense technology during the Cold War. What’s more, the policies won’t help protect American lives and interests from drone-based terrorist attacks, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference is underway this week in Las Vegas, attracting more than 42,000 attendees to what has become the premier cloud computing conference. But AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy already provided SiliconANGLE a preview of the many new products, services, partners and customers Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud company is announcing. He ...

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